Source:Wright, J. Leitch. Only Land They Knew

Synopsis

In 1832 President Andrew Jackson uprooted the Indians of the South, forcing them overnight to abandon their homes and march hundreds of miles westward. Yet as J. Leitch Writch, Jr. shows in this eye-opening history, before succumbing to Jackson's "Trail of Tears" Southern indians endured three centuries of religious conversion, enslavement, epidemic disease, and murder at the hands of Spanish, French, and English settlers. Here is the first full account of their lives, customs, and terrible encounters with the white man as well as their surprising ties with African slaves and their extensive influence on the black American experience.

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• Document Type: Book
• ISBN: 002935790X 9780029357903
• OCLC Number: 6982151
• Notes: Includes index.
• Description: xi, 372 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
• Contents: Maps and illustrations -- The original Southerners -- The intruders -- Tsenacommacah -- The indomitable Old Dominion -- Goose Creek men -- Brands and slave cords -- Exploiting this 'Virgin Land' -- Jehovah and the Corn Mother -- Indians in Utopia -- This 'New American' -- Br'er Rabbit at the Square Ground.
• Responsibility: J. Leitch Wright, Jr.

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