ISBN: 9780820322124

This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our understanding of that infamous period, argu… Mehr…

This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our understanding of that infamous period, argues Tim Alan Garrison, is too often molded around the towering personalities of the Indian removal debate, including President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee leader John Ross, and United States Supreme Court Justice John Marshall. This common view minimizes the impact on Indian sovereignty of some little-known legal cases at the state level. Because the federal government upheld Native American self-dominion, southerners bent on expropriating Indian land sought a legal toehold through state supreme court decisions. As Garrison discusses Georgia v. Tassels (1830), Caldwell v. Alabama (1831), Tennessee v. Forman (1835), and other cases, he shows how proremoval partisans exploited regional sympathies. By casting removal as a states' rights, rather than a moral, issue, they won the wide support of a land-hungry southern populace. The disastrous consequences to Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles are still unfolding. Important in its own right, jurisprudence on Indian matters in the antebellum South also complements the legal corpus on slavery. Readers will gain a broader perspective on the racial views of the southern legal elite, and on the logical inconsistencies of southern law and politics in the conceptual period of the anti-Indian and proslavery ideologies. Legal Ideology of Removal Garrison, Tim Alan, University of Georgia Press<

2002, ISBN: 0820322121

[EAN: 9780820322124], [SC: 38.93], [PU: University of Georgia Press, Athens], NATIVE AMERICAN, Jacket, xiii, 331 pages. 8vo, maroon cloth, d.w. (large closed tear at head). Athens: Univer… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780820322124], [SC: 38.93], [PU: University of Georgia Press, Athens], NATIVE AMERICAN, Jacket, xiii, 331 pages. 8vo, maroon cloth, d.w. (large closed tear at head). Athens: University of Georgia Press, (2002). Half title page and twelve pages towards the rear heavily annotated in ink. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper., Books<

2002, ISBN: 0820322121

[EAN: 9780820322124], [SC: 0.0], [PU: The University of Georgia Press], Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Descr… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780820322124], [SC: 0.0], [PU: The University of Georgia Press], Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.<

2002, ISBN: 0820322121

[EAN: 9780820322124], [PU: The University of Georgia Press], Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780820322124], [PU: The University of Georgia Press], Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.<