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Where Settlement Met Displacement

Where Settlement Met Displacement

Par Brookstone, Thalia

Publié par epubli

English 2026 ISBN 9783565198825
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Colonial America was not built on empty land awaiting European civilization, but carved from territories with established communities, trade networks, and diplomatic systems that had existed for centuries. Every settlement negotiation masked coercion, every land deed concealed prior claims, and every boundary line represented erasure of Indigenous sovereignty. This book examines colonial development through the voices often excluded from founding narratives: Indigenous leaders navigating impossible choices between resistance and accommodation, enslaved Africans whose forced labor made plantation economies viable, indentured servants whose dreams of land ownership collided with elite consolidation of property, and women whose domestic labor sustained settlements while legal systems denied them autonomy. It traces how early cooperation deteriorated into systematic displacement, how disease and violence created demographic collapse, and how colonial legal frameworks legitimized theft through manufactured justifications. Drawing on treaty negotiations, court records, archaeological evidence from contact sites, oral histories preserved in tribal archives, and material culture revealing daily interactions, it explores how different European powers pursued distinct colonial strategies, how Indigenous nations formed alliances to resist encroachment, how enslaved communities built networks of survival and resistance, and how ecological transformation followed European agricultural practices. It examines how conflicts over land, resources, and sovereignty escalated into wars that devastated entire regions. This is a reckoning with how colonial institutions—plantations, missions, trading posts, military forts—created structures of inequality that persisted long after independence.

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