1814

Treaty of Fort Jackson

Alabama and Georgia; Muscogee Nation

Jackson imposed extensive land cessions on the Muscogee Nation, including communities that had fought on his side. The result enabled expansion of settlement and plantation slavery.

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Context / qualification

Collective dispossession exceeded punishment of the opposing faction.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 6
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 6

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