Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian

by Bernard W. Sheehan

Overview

This study is the first to explain how the white American's conception of himself and his position on the continent formed his perception of the Indian and directed his selection of policy toward the native tribes. Sheehan presents the paradoxical and pathetic story of how the Jeffersonian generation, with the best of goodwill toward the American Indian, destroyed him with its benevolence, literally killed him with kindness.

Originally published 1973.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807839911
Publisher:	Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
Publication date:	06/01/2013
Series:	Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	313
File size:	2 MB