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Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack
By Mooney, Katherine C.
- ISBN
- 9780674281424
- Publisher
- Harvard Univ.
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Reviewed on March 15, 2014 | Social Sciences
Mooney (postdoctoral fellow, American cultural history, Washington Univ., St. Louis) explores African Americans in U.S. thoroughbred horse racing from the antebellum through the Jim Crow era. Black men were active in 19th-century racing, most prominent in the South, as jockeys, grooms, and trainers for this first large spectator sport in the United States. Initially rich Southern white men, who had acquired their wealth from slave labor, were totally dependent on highly ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
