One of the very important books about slavery and cotton in the United States. or implode, and the warpings this wrought on the people who perpetuated it. by Belknap Press Yes it’s slavery, but it’s far crazier than you’ve thought: The South seceded in large part due to its aspirations (and perceived necessity) of global/imperial market expansion (it’s way more interesting than that sounds).Such a well-researched book made mediocre by needless academic tomfoolery. An audacious thesis about slavery's connection to Southern attitudes toward trade and empire, marred by the author's faulty understanding of capitalism and addiction to atrocious academic prose and literary pretensions.
Mr. Johnson provides the reader more than a 100 pages of references in support of his narrative on cotton's capitalistic use of slavery.
It views the slave economy of the American South as part of a global economic system, and does not shy away from the inherent contradictions in the political philosophy involved or the horrifying conditions under which enslaved people lived their lives. Even as the North challenged the slave-based economy, the South was determined to retain slavery at all costs, and even tried to export its version of slavery to other nations such as Cuba and Nicaragua. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
His prize-winning books, Soul by Soul: Life Inside in the Antebellum Slave Market (1999) and River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Mississippi Valley's Cotton Kingdom (2013), were published by Harvard University Press. Slavery was, in fact, the primary economic driver of the Cotton Kingdom, without which the Southern planters believed they could not prosper.
While that book takes a world view of the industry, River of Dark Dreams has a focus on the particular institution of slavery that made the globalized industry viable. Johnson's prose is lovely, if 'lovely can be used to describe a book about slave-holding imperialism in the Cotton Kingdom. ...Thank you, Walter Johnson, for another beautifully written history with theory that is accessible to all of us. Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom traces the development of an imperial ethos among southern planters and firebrands in the Mississippi River Valley between roughly 1820 and 1861. Some key images I had not known about really stuck in my head: for example, the poor diet of the slaves, consisting mainly of pork and corn (maize). Again, these are things that have been identified by many other historians, but they are explored and applied in a new packaging that is quite handsome and convincing. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong. "River of Dark Dreams" places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. I actually skimmed this once for a class and then went back to try to read it more carefully--and while it took me a really long time, it was so worth it. And they in their turn were the proprietors of the only viable industry in the region that could be used for trade with the rest of the world. A fantastic book could be cobbled together from the material the author uncovered, shorn of his trite theories and phrases like "material givenness," "gendered hierarchies of household social order," "technologies of dominion and extraction," "tesselated agency," etc. He is the author of “One man had been completely submerged in the boiling liquid which inundated the cabin, and in his removal to the deck, the skin had separated from the entire surface of his body.
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