Toward Cherokee Removal: Land, Violence, and the White Man's Chance

by Adam J. Pratt and Adam J Pratt

Book Overview

Cherokee Removal excited the passions of Americans across the country. Nowhere did those passions have more violent expressions than in Georgia, where white intruders sought to acquire Native land through intimidation and state policies that supported their disorderly conduct. Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears, although the direct results of federal policy articulated by Andrew Jackson, were hastened by the state of Georgia. Starting in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820362646
• ISBN13: 9780820362649
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"