The consequences of this vast transfer of land and wealth still resonate today"-Provided by the publisher Moving beyond the familiar story of the Trail of Tears, Unworthy Republic offers a fast-paced yet deeply researched account of unbridled greed, government indifference, and administrative incompetence. In telling the full story of this systematic, state-sponsored theft, Saunt reveals how expulsion became national policy, abetted by southern slave owners and financed by Wall Street. Instead, Saunt argues that it was a contested political act (resisted by both indigenous peoples and US citizens) that passed in Congress by a razor-thin margin. In this book, Claudio Saunt upends the common view that 'Indian Removal' was an inevitable chapter in US expansion across the continent. Over the next decade, Native Americans saw their homelands and possessions stolen through fraud, intimidation, and murder. On May 28, 1830, Congress authorized the expulsion of indigenous peoples from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Summary "A history of the forced migration of 80,000 Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s.
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