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Indians in the family adoption and the politics of antebellum expansion /

In 1813, Andrew Jackson invaded the Creek Indian Nation and, in the aftermath, sent a Creek boy home to his plantation household. Jackson's eventual adoption of this child opens a window into a forgotten story of adoption in the early nineteenth century. By tracking the political, familial, and...

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Main Author: Peterson, Dawn, 1977-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Physical Description: 421 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Indians, Treatment of -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Adoption -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Imperialism.
Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.
United States -- Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • Adopting Indians into the early U.S. republic
  • American Indians and the post-revolutionary era
  • Domestic fronts on the eve of 1812
  • A Choctaw mother in slave country
  • Adoption in Andrew Jackson's empire
  • Defending "civilization"
  • Adoption and diplomacy
  • Choctaw schooling
  • Adoption and the politics of Indian removal.

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