Race horse men [electronic resource] : how slavery and freedom were made at the racetrack / Katherine C. Mooney.
Mooney, Katherine Carmines.
2014
SF335.U5 M66 2014eb
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Title
Race horse men [electronic resource] : how slavery and freedom were made at the racetrack / Katherine C. Mooney.
Author
Mooney, Katherine Carmines.
ISBN
9780674419551 electronic book
0674419553 electronic book
9780674281424
067428142X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674419551
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.4159/harvard.9780674419551 DOI
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SF335.U5 M66 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
798.400896073
Summary
"Recaptures the vivid sights, sensations, and illusions of nineteenth-century thoroughbred racing, America's first mass spectator sport. Inviting readers into the pageantry of the racetrack, Katherine C. Mooney conveys the sport's inherent drama while also revealing the significant intersections between horse racing and another quintessential institution of the antebellum South: slavery"--book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Prologue : The loss of the stirrup has won the race
The glory of the four-mile horse
Knowed a horse when he seed him
A storm is approaching
These are the verities
The only practical means of reunion
I ride to win
I have got that nigger beat
Epilogue : He didn't go in no back doors!

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