River Of Dark Dreams Summary

The ending chapters of River of Dark Dreams summarized the reopening of slavery arguments and the United States imperial expansion. The reopeners, as well as many other southerners, believed that cotton gave slaveholders power over free men. The hierarchy, power, and necessity that associated itself with slavery was important to have. To be a slaveholder was a privilege, rite of passage, and a societal license in classism. They saw liberal capitalism as a profound threat to the social hierarchy, which was rooted in self-serving claims about paternalism, the enduring value and desirability of social and economic relations, and the cherished connection between slaveholding society and the integrity of individual, patriarchal white households.
Reopening the slave trade would fuse its control over both the cotton economy and the future of slavery, failing to do so would compromise its monopoly position, reduce the value of
In the minds of the reopeners, trade and agriculture were the key to global domination. Proponents of the slave trade often represented the slave trade and continued domination of world market in cotton. The reopeners like many other southerners believed that cotton gave slaveholder power over free men. Reopening the trade would consolidate its control over both the cotton economy and the future of slavery, failing to do so would compromise the monopoly positon. Politics formation was a vehicle by which economy might finally constitute space in its own image. By controlling the terms of economic growth, one could the inflow of pro slavery or anti-slavery whites. The slave trade was the vehicle for a full spectrum of slaveholding dominance, the promise of white patriarchy and pro slavery empire embedded in slaves. The pro slavery vision of empire and expansion was rooted in the capacity of slaves and white patriarchy over