Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson

ISBN-13: 9780190053826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 418 str.

Christina Snyder

Recenzje

The Choctaw Indian Academy at Great Crossings, Kentucky, which existed from 1825 to 1848, represented dreams for a future for the US that never materialized. The Choctaws hoped that establishing a school for their children outside of their homelands with the US War Department would signal that they were 'civilized' and deserved a place in the nation....Snyder...details how Great Crossings became an anachronism in a US bent on the removal of all American Indians westward in order to facilitate a massive expansion of the South's plantation economy built on African and African American slave labor. Highly recommended.

O autorze

Christina Snyder is McCabe Greer Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of the award-winning Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America.