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The
Human Meaning of Removal
Read
the following documents and describe the hardships and dislocations
that the Indians faced along the Trail of Tears.
- Eliza
Whitmire was about five years old when she and her
parents, who were enslaved to a Cherokee family, were forced
to leave Georgia. She later described the process of removal.
Read Whitmire's account
- Elizabeth
Watts,
a Cherokee woman whose mother was born along the Trail of Tears,
described the trek westward.
Read Watt's account.
- General
Winfield Scott orders the Cherokee people not to resist
the removal order.
Read Scott's orders.
- Lt.
L.B. Webster, who accompanied the Cherokee along part
of the Trail of Tears, offered a first-hand account of the journey.
Read Webster's account.
- Private
John G. Burnett, who also accompanied the Cherokee
westward, described what he saw.
Read Burnett's description.
- Jane
Bushyhead, a Cherokee girl, wrote a letter to a friend
about the impending forced removal of the Cherokees.
Read Bushyhead's
letter.
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