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Drew, Bettina. "Master Andrew Jackson: Indian Removal and the Culture of Slavery," Yale University, December 2001.
This dissertation is a biographical study of Andrew Jackson from 1767-1820 that posits Jackson’s treatment of Native Americans, rather than the Battle of New Orleans, as his most profound and enduring legacy. In particular, it highlights Jackson’s regionalist rather than nationalist tendencies and views Jackson as a rigid conformist to the Code of Honor in antebellum Southern slave-holding culture. Discussing his gambling, dueling, business relationships, love of the military, and his inability to tolerate dissent as they related to slave society, the dissertation argues most significantly that Jackson was a continual law-breaker whose conception of the law-as a flexible instrument that could be sued or broken by those in power to serve their own needs-was deeply Southern. Disdaining treaties, Jackson acquired the Cotton Kingdom almost single-handedly, with Southern political leaders insisting upon legislative, subjugated, mass treatment for Indians, a policy until that time pertaining only to blacks and to no other peoples. As President, he defied a Supreme Court order to force the Cherokees west. The dissertation suggests that to recognize the extent to which Indian policies in the early republic were influenced by hardening pro-slavery policies makes it possible to see American Indian Removal as one of the last grand gestures of the doomed slave South.
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