![]() ![]() ![]() Saunt's writing turns historical statistics and documents accessible to non-specialists. In Unworthy Republic, Claudio Saunt reconstructs the three main voices during this controversial and violent time: white supporters of the expulsion (mostly Southerners), white opponents of it (mostly activists from the North), and the indigenous peoples themselves. Thousands of lives and millions of acres of indigenous lands were lost. ![]() Jackson's political agenda, known as the 'Indian Removal', stretched throughout the entire 1830s and beyond. ![]() In May 1830, the United States government, under Andrew Jackson's presidency, passed an act to systematically expel Native American communities from their homelands. Saunt uses a variety of maps and firsthand sources, making it both insightful for historians and digestible for a general readership. This book reminds readers of not just the bloodiness of the dispossession but also the government’s mismanagement that caused more harm, as well as how the indigenous communities tried to defend their lands. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian TerritoryĬlaudio Saunt revisits the United State government’s violent dispossession of Native American communities from their homelands in the 1830s. ![]()
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