Beyond removal : Indians, states, and sovereignties in the American South, 1812-1860

In 1830, the US Congress passed the Indian Removal Act; within a decade, 65,000 of the South's original inhabitants had left the region. Two centuries later, historians still see removal as a pivot that transformed indigenous South into Cotton Kingdom. This dissertation tells a different story....

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Main Author: Dinwoodie, Jane
Other Authors: Hamalainen, Pekka
Published: University of Oxford 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.729223