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The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia



Overview 

In October 2015, the Michael C. Carlos Museum debuted "Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection," a major exhibit accompanied by four invited public lectures. Dr. Claudio Saunt's November 10, 2015, lecture explored Georgia's role in Indian Removal policies that expelled 100,000 people from the Southeast in the 1830s.

Presentation Published March 15, 2016.



Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at the University of Georgia. He is currently working on a book on Indian removal. Previous books include West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

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