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

by Joshua D. Rothman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820346810
• ISBN13: 9780820346816
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"