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Author:

Rothman, Joshua D.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

391 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--Southern States--History.
Theft--Southern States--History--19th century.
Criminals--Southern States--History--19th century.
Vigilance committee--Southern States--History--19th century.
Slave insurrections--Southern States--History--19th century.
Southern States--History--1775-1865.
Southern States--Economic conditions--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Inventing Virgil Stewart -- Inventing John Murrell -- Exposing the plot -- Hanging the conspirators -- Purging a city -- Defining a citizen -- Suborning chaos -- Imposing order.

Series:

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

ISBN:

0820333263 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780820333267 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)792884026

LCCN:

2012030124

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)