Southern white families’ land claims were founded on Native American removal

Evidence

But with roots from both sides of my family tree that reach back through the red clay of Twiggs and Bibb Counties, Georgia, into the mid seventeen hundreds, this book—the story of just how intractably white supremacy has become embedded in the DNA of American Christianity—is also personal. The 1815 family Bible on the top shelf of the bookcase in our home library gives witness to ancestors from middle Georgia who were Baptist preachers, slave owners, and Confederate soldiers. My family immigrated to Georgia from Virginia after receiving land grants as a reward for military service in the Revolutionary War as the government was forcibly removing Native Americans from Georgia and supporting the growth of white settlements. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 23

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White subject positions were both cause and effect of nation-building and land-taking — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 754; Adopting white institutions and slavery did not shield Native nations from land seizure — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 491; The United States constituted itself as a racialized white nation from its origin (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• White subject positions were both cause and effect of nation-building and land-taking #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 754
• White supremacist land claims rest on race rather than citizenship or history #corroborates (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 909
• Former slaves claimed indigenous identity to legitimize their land despite African origins #corroborates (0.85) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1056
• Adopting white institutions and slavery did not shield Native nations from land seizure #corroborates (0.80) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 491
• The United States constituted itself as a racialized white nation from its origin #expands (0.80)
• White identity formation has been central to land-taking and nation-building #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 754
• Land entitlement claims rest on race rather than history in settler colonies #qualifies (0.80)
• The Three-fifths Clause gave Southern whites the political power to secure Native land. #expands (0.80) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 502
• Cultural-erasure denial licensed apartheid and Native American dispossession #expands (0.80) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 385
• White landowners equated landlessness with losing their Whiteness and freedom. #expands (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 677