President by Massacre: Indian-Killing for Political Gain

by Barbara Alice Mann

Overview

President by Massacre pulls back the curtain of "expansionism," revealing how Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Zachary Taylor massacred Indians to "open" land to slavery and oligarchic fortunes.

President by Massacre examines the way in which presidential hopefuls through the first half of the nineteenth century parlayed militarily mounted land grabs into "Indian-hating" political capital to attain the highest office in the United States. The text zeroes in on three eras of U.S. "expansionism" as it led to the massacre of Indians to "open" land to African slavery while luring lower European classes into racism's promise to raise "white" above "red" and "black."

This book inquires deeply into the existence of the affected Muskogee ("Creek"), Shawnee, Sauk, Meskwaki ("Fox"), and Seminole, before and after invasion, showing what it meant to them to have been so displaced and to have lost a large percentage of their members in the process. It additionally addresses land seizures from these and the Tecumseh, Tenskwatawa, Black Hawk, and Osceola tribes.

President by Massacre is written for undergraduate and graduate readers who are interested in the Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands, U.S. slavery, and the settler politics of U.S. expansionism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798216131946
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/27/2019
Series:	Native America: Yesterday and Today
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Barbara Alice Mann is professor of humanities in the Jesup Scott Honors College at the University of Toledo, and is the author of 13 books.
Barbara Alice Mann is professor of humanities in the Jesup Scott Honors College at the University of Toledo, and is the author of 13 books.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword vii

Introduction: Chosen Oblivion xi

Part I William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841, Admin., 1841 1

1 Dodging Well and Becoming Conspicuous: William Henry Harrison 3

2 "Defrauded and Cheated": The Build-up to the Tecumseh War 30

3 "The Sun Is My Father, and the Earth Is My Mother": Harrison's War on Tecumseh 79

Part II Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845, Admin., 1829-1837 115

4 Mammoths of Iniquity: The Rise of the Braggadocio General 117

5 Sky Panthers and Ground Snakes 158

6 "We Now Shot Them Like Dogs": The Massacre of the Muskogee, 1813-1814 189

Part III Zachary Taylor, 1784-1850, Admin., 1849-1850 211

7 "Inch by Inch": Zachary Taylor, "Old Rough and Ready" 213

8 "All Nations Call Me Sauk!": The Black Hawk War, 1831-1832 250

9 "Is This the White Men's Faith?": Seminole, Maroons, and Settlers, 1835-1840 291

Conclusion: Men of Which People? 337

Bibliography 341

Index 387