Thesis
Beyond removal: Indians, states, and sovereignties in the American South, 1812-1860
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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 different story. Contrary to officials’ hopes, thousands of indigenous Southerners remained. This dissertation provides the first account of non-removal as a massive cross-regional phenomenon which affected not only...
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Funding
McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
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Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
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- Deposit date:
- 2017-09-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Dinwoodie, J
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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