Beyond removal: Indians, states, and sovereignties in the American South, 1812-1860
<p>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 differe...
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