Hello welcome to the Atlanta History Center for the author talk series and your post tonight i and talking with Claudio Saunt his book on were the republic. You can purchase the book directly from the link in the chat on your screen. Please let your questions on the q a feature at the bottom of your screen and i will try to get to as many as time allows. Professor of American History code director for ritual history associate director at university of georgia and three previous books a native American History. Rest of the revolution, black white and indian and a new order of things. Thank you to the atlanta history sent on center for sponsoring this event. So many histories at the explosive of the negative ability. You cover a lot the political and economic motivation. And two thirds of what became mississippi and its not just how much land it was the most valuable Agricultural Land in the world at the time. And removal is part of the southern story but the indian people in the north a
Institute of native american studies at the university of georgia. Hes the authohe is the author e previous books west of the revolution, black white and a new order of things. Thank you for joining us and welcome thank you for sponsoring this event. It challenges the idea that so many have represented the expulsion as an inevitability. Youve covered a lot of evidence of political motivations. How much land first did indian zone in the southeast and the decades before the 1830s . They owned a huge amount. Half of what became mississippi and about a fifth of georgia. Its how valuable the land was. It was among the most valuable probably in the entire world at the time. We think of it largely as a southern story. They have much smaller spots of land by the early century. You cover a number of other tribes expelled from new york and ohio and i know it differs from tribe to tribe and state to state but what kind of rights or autonomy did they have lets say in the south . It is contested to
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