CSPAN2 Claudio Saunt Unworthy Republic October 10, 2022
Expulsion of native americans an inevitability. And you a lot of evidence of political and economic motivations. So how much land first did indians own the southeast in the decades before. The 1830s, they owned a huge amount. Half of alabama two thirds as what became mississippi, about a fifth of georgia. And its not just how much land owned, but how valuable that land was. It was among the most valuable but howow valuable that land wa. Was among the most valuable agricultural lands probably in the entire world at the time. And removal covered the entire United States, we think largely as a so...