Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain - Migration and the Making of the United States

"This work explores the conflicts over migration at the center of the social, political, intellectual, and physical landscape of the early United States. Examining the voluntary and forced migrations of Indigenous, African American, and Anglo Americans in the decades immediately following the Revolution, Samantha Seeley argues that the United States took shape as a white republic through contentious negotiations over who could move and where, who could remain and how. Removal was not sweeping, top-down federal legislation. Instead, it was a battle fought on multiple fronts. It encompassed tribal leaders' attempts to expel white settlers from Native lands and African Americans' legal battles to remain within states that sought to drive them out. National in scope, the book is grounded in a close examination of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri--states poised between the edges of slavery and freedom where removal was both warmly embraced and hotly contested"--

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Samantha Seeley is assistant professor of history at the University of Richmond.

Zusammenfassung

Reorienting the history of US expansion around Native American and African American histories, Seeley provides a much-needed reconsideration of early nation building.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Samantha Seeley
• Verlag: University Of North Carolina
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781469664811
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-6481-1
• Seiten: 368
• Serien: Published by the Omohundro Ins; Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges