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The Resource River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom, Walter Johnson
River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom, Walter Johnson
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- Summary
- This 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 526 pages
- Contents
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- Preface: 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
- Isbn
- 9780674045552
- Label
- River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom
- Title
- River of dark dreams
- Title remainder
- slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom
- Statement of responsibility
- Walter Johnson
- Subject
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- Capitalism -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Commerce
- Cotton growing
- Cotton growing -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Etats-Unis
- Expansie (macht)
- History
- Imperialism
- Imperialism -- History -- 19th century
- Kapitalisme
- Katoenproductie
- Mississippi (Etats-Unis, vallée)
- Mississippi River Valley
- Mississippi River Valley -- Commerce | History -- 19th century
- Mississippi River Valley -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- Mississippital
- Race relations
- Sklavenhandel
- Sklaverei
- Slave trade
- Slave trade -- History -- 19th century
- Slavenhandel
- Slavernij
- Slavery
- Slavery -- Economic aspects
- Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Sociaal-economische verandering
- Social change
- Social change -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Territorial expansion
- United States
- United States -- Territorial expansion | History -- 19th century
- 1800 - 1899
- Wirtschaft
- Zuidelijke staten
- Verenigde Staten
- Capitalism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Johnson, Walter
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E449
- LC item number
- .J695 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Slavery
- Cotton growing
- Slavery
- Capitalism
- Social change
- Imperialism
- Slave trade
- Slavernij
- Expansie (macht)
- Kapitalisme
- Katoenproductie
- Slavenhandel
- Sociaal-economische verandering
- Sklaverei
- Sklavenhandel
- Wirtschaft
- Capitalism
- Commerce
- Cotton growing
- Imperialism
- Race relations
- Slave trade
- Slavery
- Slavery
- Social change
- Territorial expansion
- Mississippi River Valley
- Mississippi River Valley
- United States
- Verenigde Staten
- Zuidelijke staten
- Mississippi (Etats-Unis, vallée)
- Etats-Unis
- Mississippital
- Mississippi River Valley
- United States
- Label
- River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom, Walter Johnson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface: 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
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 526 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674045552
- Isbn Type
- (alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2012030065
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40021980241
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)809365647
- (OCoLC)ocn809365647
- Label
- River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom, Walter Johnson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface: 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
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 526 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674045552
- Isbn Type
- (alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2012030065
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40021980241
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)809365647
- (OCoLC)ocn809365647
Subject
- Capitalism -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Commerce
- Cotton growing
- Cotton growing -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Etats-Unis
- Expansie (macht)
- History
- Imperialism
- Imperialism -- History -- 19th century
- Kapitalisme
- Katoenproductie
- Mississippi (Etats-Unis, vallée)
- Mississippi River Valley
- Mississippi River Valley -- Commerce | History -- 19th century
- Mississippi River Valley -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- Mississippital
- Race relations
- Sklavenhandel
- Sklaverei
- Slave trade
- Slave trade -- History -- 19th century
- Slavenhandel
- Slavernij
- Slavery
- Slavery -- Economic aspects
- Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Sociaal-economische verandering
- Social change
- Social change -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Territorial expansion
- United States
- United States -- Territorial expansion | History -- 19th century
- 1800 - 1899
- Wirtschaft
- Zuidelijke staten
- Verenigde Staten
- Capitalism
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