Unnamed Negro Steamboat Hands

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Unnamed Negro Steamboat Hands
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Unnamed Negro Steamboat Hands
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Transportation
Specific Job: 
Steamboat Hand
Biography: 

This is one of the two groups of men from whom Charles E. C-V. Bon - a "white-colored man" (167) with a "coal black" wife (166) - deliberately provokes a racial reaction: "the negro stevedores and deckhands on steamboats or in city honky-tonks who thought he was a white man" (167).

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