River of Dark Dreams Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Name: River of Dark Dreams Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
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ISBN: 9780674045552

ISBN-10: 0674045556

ISBN-13: 9780674045552

Edition: 2013

Authors: Walter Johnson

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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. River of Dark Dreams 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,…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 524
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Walter Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.



Introduction: Boom



Jeffersonian Visions and Nightmares in Louisiana



The Panic of 1835



The Steamboat Sublime



Limits to Capital



The Runaway's River



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 Reopen the Slave Trade


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index