03123nam 2200709Ia 450 991046187870332120200520144314.01-283-73338-20-8203-4466-4(CKB)2670000000276453(EBL)1222467(SSID)ssj0000759435(PQKBManifestationID)11435023(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759435(PQKBWorkID)10782872(PQKB)10891789(MiAaPQ)EBC1222467(OCoLC)820011226(MdBmJHUP)muse18975(Au-PeEL)EBL1222467(CaPaEBR)ebr10621792(CaONFJC)MIL404588(OCoLC)854973931(EXLCZ)99267000000027645320120727d2012 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrFlush times and fever dreams[electronic resource] a story of capitalism and slavery in the age of Jackson /Joshua D. RothmanAthens University of Georgia Pressc20121 online resource (425 p.)Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900Description based upon print version of record.0-8203-3326-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Inventing Virgil Stewart -- Inventing John Murrell -- Exposing the plot -- Hanging the conspirators -- Purging a city -- Defining a citizen -- Suborning chaos -- Imposing order.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 targetedRace in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900SlaverySouthern StatesHistoryTheftSouthern StatesHistory19th centuryCriminalsSouthern StatesHistory19th centuryVigilance committeesSouthern StatesHistory19th centurySlave insurrectionsSouthern StatesHistory19th centurySouthern StatesHistory1775-1865Southern StatesEconomic conditions19th centuryElectronic books.SlaveryHistory.TheftHistoryCriminalsHistoryVigilance committeesHistorySlave insurrectionsHistory306.3/620975Rothman Joshua D877202MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461878703321Flush times and fever dreams1958581UNINA