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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Snyder, Christina, author.     Subjects     Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850 -- Homes and haunts -- Kentucky -- Great Crossing.     Choctaw Indian Academy -- History.     Choctaw Indians -- Kentucky -- Great Crossing -- History -- 19th century.     African Americans -- Kentucky -- Great Crossing -- History -- 19th century.     Enslaved persons -- Kentucky -- Great Crossing -- History -- 19th century.     Community life -- Kentucky -- Great Crossing -- History -- 19th century.     Imperialism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Great Crossing (Ky.) -- History -- 19th century.     Great Crossing (Ky.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.     United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Snyder, Christina, author.       by title:      Great crossings : In...         MARC Display

Great crossings : Indians, settlers, and slaves in the age of Jackson / Christina Snyder. by Snyder, Christina, author. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2017. Subjects Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850 -- Homes and haunts -- Kentucky -- Great Crossing.   Choctaw Indian Academy -- History.   Choctaw Indians -- Kentucky -- Great Crossing -- History -- 19th century.   African Americans -- Kentucky -- Great Crossing -- History -- 19th century.   Enslaved persons -- Kentucky -- Great Crossing -- History -- 19th century.   Community life -- Kentucky -- Great Crossing -- History -- 19th century.   Imperialism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Great Crossing (Ky.) -- History -- 19th century.   Great Crossing (Ky.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.   United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780199399062 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 0199399069 (hardcover : alkaline paper) Description:  xii, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Contents:  Introduction: the great path? -- Warriors -- A family at the crossing -- Scholars -- Indian gentlemen and black ladies -- Rise of the leviathan -- The land of death -- Rebirth of the Spartans -- The vice president and the runaway lovers -- Dr. Nail's Rebellion -- The new superintendent -- Orphans among strangers -- Indian schools for Indian territory -- Conclusion: paths to the future. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In this beautifully written book, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian America. Usually, this drama focuses on whites who turned west to conquer a continent, extending liberty as they went. Great Crossings features Indians 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 allows 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 lover, who fought for her children's freedom; 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 that era transformed colonizers and the colonized alike, sowing the seeds of modern America"-- Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 976.9425 Sn Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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