River Of Dark Dreams Slavery And Empire In The Cotton Kingdom [Paperback]

Winner of the SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Honorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians
AChoiceOutstanding Academic Title of the Year

[One] of the most impressive works of American history in many years.
Timothy Shenk,The Nation

River of Dark Dreamsis an important, arguably seminal, book& It is always trenchant and learned. And in highly compelling fashion, it helps us more fully appreciate how thoroughly the slaveholding South was part of the capitalist transatlantic world of the first half of the 19th century.
Mark M. Smith,Wall Street Journal

Walter JohnsonsRiver of Dark Dreamsshows how the Cotton Kingdom of the 19th-century Deep South, far from being a backward outpost of feudalism, was a dynamic engine of capitalist expansion built on enslaved labor.
A. O. Scott,New York Times

River of Dark Dreamsdelivers spectacularly on the long-standing mission to write history from the bottom up.
Maya Jasanoff,New York Review of Books

Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully asRiver of Dark Dreams.
Ari Kelman,Times Literary Supplement