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Great Crossings - Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson (Paperback)
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Great Crossings - Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson (Paperback)
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In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of
Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the
history of Jacksonian America. Most often, this drama focuses on
whites who turned west to conquer a continent, extending "liberty"
as they went. Great Crossings also includes Native Americans from
across the continent seeking new ways to assert anciently-held
rights and people of African descent who challenged the United
States to live up to its ideals. These diverse groups met in an
experimental community in central Kentucky called Great Crossings,
home to the first federal Indian school and a famous interracial
family. Great Crossings embodied monumental changes then
transforming North America. The United States, within the span of a
few decades, grew from an East Coast nation to a continental
empire. The territorial growth of the United States forged a
multicultural, multiracial society, but that diversity also sparked
fierce debates over race, citizenship, and America's destiny. Great
Crossings, a place of race-mixing and cultural exchange, emerged as
a battleground. Its history provides an intimate view of the
ambitions and struggles of Indians, settlers, and slaves who were
trying to secure their place in a changing world. Through deep
research and compelling prose, Snyder introduces us to a diverse
range of historical actors: Richard Mentor Johnson, the politician
who reportedly killed Tecumseh and then became schoolmaster to the
sons of his former foes; Julia Chinn, Johnson's enslaved concubine,
who fought for her children's freedom; and Peter Pitchlynn, a
Choctaw intellectual who, even in the darkest days of Indian
removal, argued for the future of Indian nations. Together, their
stories demonstrate how this era transformed colonizers and the
colonized alike, sowing the seeds of modern America.
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