Children of the Levee by Hearn, Lafcadio

Children of the Levee (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813152547)

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Children of the Levee by Hearn, Lafcadio

Children of the Levee

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Children of the Levee by Hearn, Lafcadio

Children of the Levee

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Cincinnati in the 1870's was the largest inland city in the nation. Much of its prosperity and growth it owed to the commerce which floated along its Ohio River boundary on the way between Pittsburgh and New Orleans. This traffic also sustained a unique African American culture-saloonkeepers, boardinghouse operators, entertainers, and women who served the steamboat hands between trips. Into this great western metropolis came young Lafcadio Hearn, who after several tentative starts became a news

Author: Lafcadio Hearn
ISBN-10: 0813152542
ISBN-13: 9780813152547
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.29d
By Lafcadio Hearn
By Lafcadio Hearn
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O. W. Frost, who collected and edited these sketches, is the author of Young Heam. A graduate of the University of Illinois, he also holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from that institution.

John Ball, who wrote the introduction, is professor of English at his alma mater, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. The Ph.D. degree was awarded him by the University of Cincinnati.

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