ISBN:
9781469664835
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (354 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Seeley, Samantha Race, removal, and the right to remain
DDC:
304.8097309033
Keywords:
African Americans ; Relocation
;
Forced migration
;
Indians of North America ; Relocation
;
Migration, Internal
;
Race relations
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
United States
Abstract:
Removal and the British Empire -- "The Whole Debt of the Nation" : Removal in Indian Country -- "A Great Road Cut" : Pursing the Right to Remain in the Ohio Valley -- The Tools of "Civilization" : Restricting Migration in the West -- "A Good Citizen of the Whole World" : Colonization in the Era of Gradual Emancipation -- "Shut Every State against Him" : Restricting Migration between the States -- "To Sunder Every Tie" : Pursuing the Right to Remain in the Upper South -- The Age of Removal -- Conclusion: The Power of Figuring.
Abstract:
"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"--
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469664811.001.0001
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