By Christina Snyder
Great Crossings embodied enormous adjustments then reworking North the US. the USA, in the span of some many years, grew from an East Coast state to a continental empire. The territorial progress of the U.S. solid a multicultural, multiracial society, yet that range additionally sparked fierce debates over race, citizenship, and America's future. nice Crossings, a spot of race-mixing and cultural trade, emerged as a battleground. Its historical past presents an intimate view of the goals and struggles of Indians, settlers, and slaves who have been attempting to safe their position in a altering global. via deep study and compelling prose, Snyder introduces us to a various diversity of historic actors: Richard Mentor Johnson, the flesh presser who reportedly killed Tecumseh after which turned schoolmaster to the sons of his former foes; Julia Chinn, Johnson's enslaved concubine, who fought for her kid's freedom; and Peter Pitchlynn, a Choctaw highbrow who, even within the darkest days of Indian elimination, argued for the way forward for Indian countries. jointly, their tales display how this period reworked colonizers and the colonized alike, sowing the seeds of contemporary America.
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