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000717559 1001_ $$aJohnson, Walter,$$d1967-
000717559 24510 $$aRiver of dark dreams$$h[electronic resource] :$$bslavery and empire in the cotton kingdom /$$cWalter Johnson.
000717559 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$$c2013.
000717559 300__ $$a1 online resource (526 pages)
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000717559 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000717559 5050_ $$aPreface: Boom : The Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton -- Jeffersonian Visions and Nightmares in Louisiana -- The Panic of 1835 -- The Steamboat Sublime -- Limits to Capital -- Race, Anxiety, and Escape on the Antebellum Mississippi -- Dominion -- "The Empire of the White Man's Will" -- The Carceral Landscape -- The Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton -- Capital, Cotton, and Free Trade -- Tales of Mississippian Empire -- The Material Limits of "Manifest Destiny" -- The Grey-eyed Man of Destiny -- The Ignominious Effort to Re-Open the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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000717559 520__ $$aThis work looks at the history of the Mississippi River Valley in the nineteenth century and the economy that developed there, powered by steam engines and slave labor. When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an "empire for liberty" populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves. This book places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War. Here the author traces the connections between the planters' pro-slavery ideology, Atlantic commodity markets, and Southern schemes for global ascendency. Using slave narratives, popular literature, legal records, and personal correspondence, he recreates the harrowing details of daily life under cotton's dark dominion. We meet the confidence men and gamblers who made the Valley shimmer with promise, the slave dealers, steamboat captains, and merchants who supplied the markets, the planters who wrung their civilization out of the minds and bodies of their human property, and the true believers who threatened the Union by trying to expand the Cotton Kingdom on a global scale. But at the center of the story the author tells are the enslaved people who pulled down the forests, planted the fields, picked the cotton, who labored, suffered, and resisted on the dark underside of the American dream.
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000717559 650_0 $$aSlavery$$zMississippi River Valley$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000717559 650_0 $$aCotton growing$$zMississippi River Valley$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000717559 650_0 $$aSlavery$$xEconomic aspects$$zMississippi River Valley$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000717559 650_0 $$aCapitalism$$zMississippi River Valley$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000717559 650_0 $$aSocial change$$zMississippi River Valley$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000717559 650_0 $$aImperialism$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000717559 650_0 $$aSlave trade$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000717559 651_0 $$aMississippi River Valley$$xRace relations$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000717559 651_0 $$aMississippi River Valley$$xCommerce$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000717559 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xTerritorial expansion$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000717559 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aJohnson, Walter, 1967-$$tRiver of dark dreams.$$dCambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013$$z9780674045552$$w(DLC) 2012030065$$w(OCoLC)809365647
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