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River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom / Walter Johnson.

Author: Johnson, Walter, 1967-

ImprintCambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.

Description526 p. ; 25 cm

Note:Preface: Boom : The Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton -- Jeffersonian Visions and Nightmares in Louisiana -- The Panic of 1835 -- The Steamboat Sublime -- Limits to Capital -- Race, Anxiety, and Escape on the Antebellum Mississippi -- 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 Re-Open the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-508) and index.

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Slavery -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
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Capitalism -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Social change -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Imperialism -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- History -- 19th century.
Mississippi River Valley -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Mississippi River Valley -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century.