River of Dark Dreams

River of Dark DreamsWhen Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an empire for liberty populated by self sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves. River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the

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examines the drummer’s role in the evolution of brass bands

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and legal setting in which the lives of Laveau’s African and European ancestors became intertwined in nineteenth-century New Orleans

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