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

In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian America. Most often, this drama focuses on whites who turned west to conquer a continent, extending "liberty" as they went. Great Crossings also in...

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Main Author: Snyder, Christina (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Edition:Paperback edition
Subjects:
Johnson, Richard M. > (Richard Mentor), > 1780-1850.
Choctaw Indians > Kentucky > Great Crossing > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Kentucky > Great Crossing > History > 19th century.
Slaves > Kentucky > Great Crossing > History > 19th century.
Community life > Kentucky > Great Crossing > History > 19th century.
Imperialism > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Great Crossing (Ky.) > History > 19th century.
Great Crossing (Ky.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the great path?
  • Warriors
  • A family at the crossing
  • Scholars
  • Indian gentlemen and black ladies
  • Rise of the leviathan
  • The land of death
  • Rebirth of the Spartans
  • The vice president and the runaway lovers
  • Dr. Nail's Rebellion
  • The new superintendent
  • Orphans among strangers
  • Indian schools for Indian territory
  • Conclusion: paths to the future.

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