Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack
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Main Author: Mooney, Katherine C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press [2014]
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Race Horse Men recaptures the vivid sights, sensations, and illusions of nineteenth-century thoroughbred racing, America’s first mass spectator sport. Inviting readers into the pageantry of the racetrack, Katherine C. Mooney conveys the sport’s inherent drama while also revealing the significant intersections between horse racing and another quintessential institution of the antebellum South: slavery
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (336p.)
ISBN:9780674419551
DOI:10.4159/harvard.9780674419551

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