- Introduction: Boom
- 1. Jeffersonian Visions and Nightmares in Louisiana
- 2. The Panic of 1835
- 3. The Steamboat Sublime
- 4. Limits to Capital
- 5. The Runaway’s River
- 6. Dominion
- 7. “The Empire of the White Man’s Will”
- 8. The Carceral Landscape
- 9. The Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton
- 10. Capital, Cotton, and Free Trade
- 11. Tales of Mississippian Empire
- 12. The Material Limits of “Manifest Destiny”
- 13. “The Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny”
- 14. The Ignominious Effort to Reopen the Slave Trade
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


River of Dark Dreams
Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
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$26.00 • £22.95 • €23.95
ISBN 9780674975385
Publication Date: 03/13/2017