TY - BOOK ID - 77894332 TI - River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom PY - 2013 SN - 0674074882 9780674074880 9780674045552 0674045556 9780674975385 0674975383 PB - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Slavery KW - Cotton growing KW - Capitalism KW - Social change KW - Imperialism KW - Slave trade KW - Change, Social KW - Cultural change KW - Cultural transformation KW - Societal change KW - Socio-cultural change KW - Social history KW - Social evolution KW - Market economy KW - Economics KW - Profit KW - Capital KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - History KW - Economic aspects KW - Mississippi River Valley KW - United States KW - Mississippi Valley KW - ABŞ KW - ABSh KW - Ameerika Ühendriigid KW - America (Republic) KW - Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary KW - Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları KW - Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları KW - Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw KW - Amerika Qūrama Shtattary KW - Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari KW - Amerika Qushma Shtattary KW - Amerika (Republic) KW - Amerikai Egyesült Államok KW - Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė KW - Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem KW - Amerikas Forenede Stater KW - Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner KW - Ameriketako Estatu Batuak KW - Amirika Carékat KW - AQSh KW - Ar. ha-B. KW - Arhab KW - Artsot ha-Berit KW - Artzois Ha'bris KW - Bí-kok KW - Ē.P.A. KW - EE.UU. KW - Egyesült Államok KW - ĒPA KW - Estados Unidos KW - Estados Unidos da América do Norte KW - Estados Unidos de América KW - Estaos Xuníos KW - Estaos Xuníos d'América KW - Estatos Unitos KW - Estatos Unitos d'America KW - Estats Units d'Amèrica KW - Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica KW - États-Unis d'Amérique KW - Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn KW - Feriene Steaten KW - Feriene Steaten fan Amearika KW - Forente stater KW - FS KW - Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs KW - Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs KW - Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ KW - Istadus Unidus KW - Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės KW - Mei guo KW - Mei-kuo KW - Meiguo KW - Mî-koet KW - Miatsʻyal Nahangner KW - Miguk KW - Na Stàitean Aonaichte KW - NSA KW - S.U.A. KW - SAD KW - Saharat ʻAmērikā KW - SASht KW - Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty KW - Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty KW - Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty KW - Sjedinjene Američke Države KW - Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki KW - Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki KW - Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki KW - Spojené staty americké KW - SShA KW - Stadoù-Unanet Amerika KW - Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá KW - Stany Zjednoczone KW - Stati Uniti KW - Stati Uniti d'America KW - Stâts Unîts KW - Stâts Unîts di Americhe KW - Steatyn Unnaneysit KW - Steatyn Unnaneysit America KW - SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) KW - Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati KW - Sŭedinenite shtati KW - Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua KW - U.S. KW - U.S.A. KW - United States of America KW - Unol Daleithiau KW - Unol Daleithiau America KW - Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko KW - US KW - USA KW - Usono KW - Vaeinigte Staatn KW - Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika KW - Vereinigte Staaten KW - Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika KW - Verenigde State van Amerika KW - Verenigde Staten KW - VS KW - VSA KW - Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí KW - Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah KW - Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah KW - Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah KW - Yhdysvallat KW - Yunaeted Stet KW - Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika KW - ZDA KW - Združene države Amerike KW - Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky KW - Zjadnośone staty Ameriki KW - Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki KW - Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy KW - ZSA KW - Η.Π.Α. KW - Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής KW - Америка (Republic) KW - Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ KW - Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем KW - САЩ KW - Съединените щати KW - Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі KW - ولايات المتحدة KW - ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة KW - ولايات المتحدة الامريكية KW - 미국 KW - Race relations KW - Commerce KW - Territorial expansion KW - E-books KW - Spojené obce severoamerické KW - Sociology of minorities KW - History of North America KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Mississippi KW - États-Unis KW - É.-U. KW - ÉU KW - Enslaved persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894332 AB - 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. ER -