Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

Name: Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Author: Theda Perdue
ISBN: 9781428198784

Author: Theda Perdue, Michael Green

Series: Library of American Indian History

Narrator: George Wilson

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/26/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Native & Indigenous History, Native & Indigenous Nonfiction, US History

Synopsis

Acclaimed historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a moving portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drives 17,000 mostly Christian Cherokee from their lush Appalachian homeland to barren plains beyond the Mississippi. For 4,000, this brutal forced march leads only to their death.

Author Bio

Theda Perdue is the Atlanta Distinguished Professor Emerita of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of many books, including Sifters: Native American Women's Lives and Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. She is past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians and the American Society for Ethnohistory, and will serve as president of the Southern Historical Association in 2011.

Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

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