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Flush times and fever dreams : a story of capitalism and slavery in the age of Jackson /
"In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the "Arkansas morass" in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart's adventure led to a sensational trial and a wildly popular published account that would ultimately help t...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue. The cotton frontier, United States of America
- Part One. Self-made men and confidence men
- Chapter one. Inventing Virgil Stewart
- Chapter two. Inventing John Murrell
- Part two. Settlers and insurrectionists
- Chapter three. Exposing the plot
- Chapter four. Hanging the conspirators Part three. Speculators and gamblers
- Chapter five. Purging a city
- Chapter six. Defining a citizen
- Part four. Slave holders and slave stealers
- Chapter seven. Suborning chaos
- Chapter eight. Imposing order
- Epilogue. Memory and meaning.