Harry P. Owens (1932-2020) was professor emeritus of history at the University of Mississippi. He was also author or editor of several publications, including Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi River Delta, The Old South in the Crucible of War, and Perspectives and Irony in American Slavery, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
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