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« Settler ‘justice’: David B. MacDonald, ‘Settler silencing and the killing of Colten Boushie: naturalizing colonialism in the trial of Gerald Stanley’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2020
Dispossession is the foundation of settler orders: Emilie Connolly, ‘Panic State Power, and Chickasaw Dispossession’, Journal of the Early Republic, 40, 4, 2020, pp. 683-689 »

Escaping and embracing the settler state: Daniel Dupre, ‘Frontiers Knit Together and Unraveled: The Rhetoric of Land Relief in an Age of Boom and Bust’, Journal of the Early Republic, 40, 4, 2020, pp. 677-682

17Nov20

Abstract: The economic boom following the War of 1812 facilitated rapid settlement westward but the Panic of 1819 exposed the fragility of expansion built upon government credit. American settlers forced by debt to relinquish hundreds of thousands of acres back to the federal government flooded Washington with petitions for relief. The rhetoric of those petitions and the speeches of politicians reveal a people developing a western sectional identity even as they forged ties of dependency on the federal government.

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