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008			130218s2013 mau ob 001 0 eng d
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050	0	4	_aE449 _b.R584 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aJohnson, Walter, _d1967- _e1
245	1	0	_aRiver of dark dreams : _bslavery and empire in the cotton kingdom / _cWalter Johnson.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (526 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: Boom -- _tJeffersonian Visions and Nightmares in Louisiana -- _tThe Panic of 1835 -- _tThe Steamboat Sublime -- _tLimits to Capital -- _tThe Runaway's River -- _tDominion -- _t"The Empire of the White Man's Will" -- _tThe Carceral Landscape -- _tThe Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton -- _tCapital, Cotton, and Free Trade -- _tTales of Mississippian Empire -- _tThe Material Limits of "Manifest Destiny" -- _t"The Grey-eyed Man of Destiny" -- _tThe Ignominious Effort to Reopen the Atlantic Slave Trade.
520	0		_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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650		0	_aSlavery _zMississippi River Valley _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aCotton growing _zMississippi River Valley _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aSlavery _xEconomic aspects _zMississippi River Valley _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aCapitalism _zMississippi River Valley _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aSocial change _zMississippi River Valley _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aImperialism _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aSlave trade _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aMississippi River Valley.
650		4	_aCapitalism _xMississippi River Valley _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aCotton growing _xMississippi River Valley _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aImperialism _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aMississippi River Valley _xRace relations _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aSlave trade _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aSlavery _xEconomic aspects _xMississippi River Valley _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aSlavery _xMississippi River Valley _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aSocial change _xMississippi River Valley _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aSlave trade.
650		4	_aSlavery.
650		4	_aSocial change.
650		4	_aCotton growing.
650		4	_aImperialism.
650		4	_aCapitalism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=520798&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell