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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothman, Joshua D.

Series:

Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Southern States--History.

Slavery.

Theft--Southern States--History--19th century.

Theft.

Criminals--Southern States--History--19th century.

Criminals.

Vigilance committees--Southern States--History--19th century.

Vigilance committees.

Slave rebellions--Southern States--History--19th century.

Slave rebellions.

Southern States--History--1775-1865.

Southern States.

Southern States--Economic conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Inventing Virgil Stewart

Inventing John Murrell

Exposing the plot

Hanging the conspirators

Purging a city

Defining a citizen

Suborning chaos

Imposing order.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283733380

1283733382

9780820344669

0820344664

OCLC:

820011226