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Author Mooney, Katherine Carmines.

Title Race horse men : how slavery and freedom were made at the racetrack / Katherine C. Mooney.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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"--Jacket.
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Subject Horse racing -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Horse racing -- Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Horse racing.
Horse racing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
African American horsemen and horsewomen -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
African American horsemen and horsewomen.
African American jockeys -- History -- 19th century.
African American jockeys.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Southern States.
Race relations.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Mooney, Katherine Carmines. Race horse men 9780674281424 (DLC) 2013037080 (OCoLC)861478331
ISBN 9780674419551 (electronic book)
0674419553 (electronic book)
9780674281424
067428142X