{"id":122,"date":"2023-05-27T01:46:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T00:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2024-07-08T02:40:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T01:40:30","slug":"eyewitness-to-the-trail-of-tears-1st-person-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/eyewitness-to-the-trail-of-tears-1st-person-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyewitness to the Trail of Tears: The Brutality of the Cherokee Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eyewitness to the Trail of Tears: The Brutality of the Cherokee Removal\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L_JZl1p5qG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The tragedy of the Cherokee removal from their ancestral homeland in the southeastern United States is a dark stain on American history. Rev. Evan Jones, a white Baptist missionary who lived among the Cherokee, witnessed first-hand how an authoritarian government used legal niceties to steal land and resources from the Cherokee people. Through his account we get a glimpse into how racism was used as an <a href=\"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/henry-clays-american-system-explained\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"433\">economic system<\/a> to drive out native populations across America. In this video we will explore what happened during this traumatic time in our nation&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/02\/invasion-of-dominica-a-pivotal-event-in-revolutionary-war-history\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"121\">history and uncover the truth behind the events<\/a> that transpired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tragedy of the Cherokee removal from their ancestral homeland in the southeastern United States is a dark stain on American history. Rev. Evan Jones, a white Baptist missionary who lived among the Cherokee, witnessed first-hand how an authoritarian government used legal niceties to steal land and resources from the Cherokee people. Through his account &#8230; <a title=\"Eyewitness to the Trail of Tears: The Brutality of the Cherokee Removal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/eyewitness-to-the-trail-of-tears-1st-person-history\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Eyewitness to the Trail of Tears: The Brutality of the Cherokee Removal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103,7,154,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4312,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/4312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}