The Original Southerners American Indians, the Civil War, and Confederate Memory

A set of Supreme Court decisions in the 1830s, part of Chief Justice John Marshall's indelible influence on the laws that govern us today, allowed southern states like Georgia to challenge Cherokee sovereignty and expand the land available to white farmers for cotton agriculture and slavery. [....

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Published inSouthern cultures Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 16 - 35
Main Author Lowery, Malinda Maynor
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 22.12.2019
The University of North Carolina Press
Subjects
African Americans
American Indians
American soldiers
Book publishing
California
Civil war
Colonialism
ESSAY
India
Lee, Robert E (1807-1870)
Lewis, Meriwether
Native Americans
Native North Americans
Parker, Ely Samuel
Slavery
State laws
United States
War
White supremacy
United States
California
India
North Carolina
United States > US
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Summary:A set of Supreme Court decisions in the 1830s, part of Chief Justice John Marshall's indelible influence on the laws that govern us today, allowed southern states like Georgia to challenge Cherokee sovereignty and expand the land available to white farmers for cotton agriculture and slavery. [...]sometimes the two groups took up the same causes, and sometimes they didn't. African Americans and Native people in New England both fought for the Union, while members of both groups resisted the Confederacy in southeastern North Carolina.4 My great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Sanderson enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862; a few months later, he faced one of the unquestionable horrors of the Civil War-the Battle of Antietam. [...]my sense of myself as a Lumbee and a southerner was defined more heavily by my other ancestors' resistance to the Confederacy.
ISSN:1068-8218
1534-1488
1534-1488
DOI:10.1353/scu.2019.0043