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UNINA9910811954703321 |
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Autore |
Rothman Joshua D |
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Titolo |
Flush times and fever dreams : a story of capitalism and slavery in the age of Jackson / / Joshua D. Rothman |
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Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-73338-2 |
0-8203-4466-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (425 p.) |
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Collana |
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Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery - Southern States - History |
Theft - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Criminals - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Vigilance committees - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Slave insurrections - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Southern States History 1775-1865 |
Southern States Economic conditions 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Inventing Virgil Stewart -- Inventing John Murrell -- Exposing the plot -- Hanging the conspirators -- Purging a city -- Defining a citizen -- Suborning chaos -- Imposing order. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 trigger widespread violence during the summer of 1835, when five men accused of being professional gamblers were hanged in Vicksburg, nearly a score of others implicated with a gang of supposed slave thieves were executed in plantation districts, and even those who tried to stop the bloodshed found themselves targeted |
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