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

Author/Contributor(s):	Rothman, Joshua D
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	05/01/2014
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Rothman sheds light on the intertwining of slavery and capitalism in the period leading up to the Panic of 1837, highlighting the deeply American impulses underpinning the evolution of the slave South and the dizzying yet unstable frenzy wrought by economic flush times.