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

With deep research and lively prose, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian era America through an experimental educational community called Great Crossings, a place where Indians, settlers, and slaves were transformed and tried to secure their place in a changing world.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: The Great Path?


• 1. Warriors


• 2. A Family at the Crossing


• 3. Scholars


• 4. Indian Gentlemen and Black Ladies


• 5. Rise of the Leviathan


• 6. The Land of Death


• 7. Rebirth of the Spartans


• 8. The Vice President and the Runaway Lovers


• 9. Dr. Nail's Rebellion


• 10. The New Superintendent


• 11. Orphans among Strangers


• 12. Indian Schools for Indian Territory


• Conclusion: Paths to the Future


• Notes


• Index

About the author

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.

Summary

With deep research and lively prose, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian era America through an experimental educational community called Great Crossings, a place where Indians, settlers, and slaves were transformed and tried to secure their place in a changing world.

Additional text

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.

Product details

• Authors: Snyder, Christina Snyder, Christina (Mccabe Greer Professor of Histo Snyder, Snyder Christina
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780190053826
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005382-6
• No. of pages: 418
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Kentucky, c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, HISTORY / African American & Black, HISTORY / Indigenous / General, Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity, Relating to Native American people / First Americans