Flush times and fever dreams [[electronic resource] ] : a story of capitalism and slavery in the age of Jackson / / Joshua D. Rothman

• Autore: Rothman Joshua D
• Pubblicazione: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (425 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3/620975
• Soggetto topico: Slavery - Southern States - History; Theft - Southern States - History - 19th century; Criminals - Southern States - History - 19th century; Vigilance committees - Southern States - History - 19th century; Slave rebellions - Southern States - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States History 1775-1865; Southern States Economic conditions 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Inventing Virgil Stewart -- Inventing John Murrell -- Exposing the plot -- Hanging the conspirators -- Purging a city -- Defining a citizen -- Suborning chaos -- Imposing order.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Flush times and fever dreams
• ISBN: 1-283-73338-2; 0-8203-4466-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786354003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900