Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson by Joshua D. Rothman

Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson

Joshua D. Rothman

440 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

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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 acco...

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