Description: Jurisprudence on Indian matters in the antebellum South also complements the legal corpus on slavery. Readers will gain a broader perspective on the racial views of the southern legal elite, and on the logical inconsistencies of southern law and politics in the conceptual period of the anti-Indian and proslavery ideologies.
Brief description: TIM ALAN GARRISON is an associate professor of history at Portland State University.
Review Quotes:
Garrison has already earned his place in Native American history with this fascinating and scholarly volume.
--William L. Anderson "Journal of East Tennessee History"