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"""Andrews continues his remarkable stream of intimate writings about poor and working-class people. His empathetic, colorful, and masterful account opens a new genre of 'history from the river bottoms up.'""--Michael K. Honey, author of To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice ""Andrews knows and understands the hard-working people of the Mississippi River bottoms. Shantyboats and Roustabouts, with admirable research and lucid prose, affirms their place in America's urban waterfront landscape.""--Bonnie Stepenoff, author of Working the Mississippi: Two Centuries of Life on the River ""Andrews sensitively tells of the toil, racism, pain, joy, music, and preaching on the river. The reader benefits from a seamless narrative filled with unforgettable people. The river poor will enter your soul and you will not be able to lose them.""--Noralee Frankel, author of Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi ""In Shantyboats and Roustabouts, Gregg Andrews reveals what Hank Williams called 'a picture from life's other side.' The human stories he brings to light from the silty banks of the Mississippi are both heartbreaking and heroic, salvaged from the American nexus of poverty and freedom.""--T. R. C. Hutton, author of Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South"

Andrews continues his remarkable stream of intimate writings about poor and working-class people. His empathetic, colorful, and masterful account opens a new genre of 'history from the river bottoms up.' --Michael K. Honey, author of To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice Andrews knows and understands the hard-working people of the Mississippi River bottoms. Shantyboats and Roustabouts, with admirable research and lucid prose, affirms their place in America's urban waterfront landscape. --Bonnie Stepenoff, author of Working the Mississippi: Two Centuries of Life on the River Andrews sensitively tells of the toil, racism, pain, joy, music, and preaching on the river. The reader benefits from a seamless narrative filled with unforgettable people. The river poor will enter your soul and you will not be able to lose them. --Noralee Frankel, author of Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi In Shantyboats and Roustabouts, Gregg Andrews reveals what Hank Williams called 'a picture from life's other side.' The human stories he brings to light from the silty banks of the Mississippi are both heartbreaking and heroic, salvaged from the American nexus of poverty and freedom. --T. R. C. Hutton, author of Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South

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Gregg Andrews is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Texas State University and the author of several books, including Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle.

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