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1 online resource (1 audio file (19hr., 18 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Tom Perkins. |
| Summary |
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 reconsideration dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in US expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War. Walter Johnson deftly 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. But at the center of the story 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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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Slavery -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
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Cotton growing -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
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Capitalism -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
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Social change -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
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Mississippi River Valley -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Mississippi River Valley -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century.
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Imperialism -- History -- 19th century.
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Slave trade -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
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| Added Author |
Perkins, Tom.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666145977 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666145971 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT14285699 |
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