The Treaty of Fort Jackson (also known as the Treaty with the Creeks) was signed on this day in 1814 at Fort Jackson in Alabama. The treaty was agreed upon in the aftermath of the defeat of Red Stick (Upper Creek) resistance by U.S. forces at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
The treaty was the "largest single Indian cession of southern American land", according to historian Michael Rogin - around 23 million acres in Alabama and Georgia. The U.S. forces won with the battle with the help of allied Cherokee and Lower Creek forces friendly to the American side.
The terms of various treaties with the Creek nation would go on to be consistently violated by Americans colonizing the south.
It gets exhausting right? I ofc have an opinion on the tipping discourse but even if I theoretically agree, HBs will just default ignore the realities of black (and other racialized) people in this shithole "country".
As if the countless generations of societal engineering haven't deliberately created an environment where a white server (currently fucked over by their employer through theft of wages and foisting the expectation of tipping onto customers) looks at black customers with utter disdain.
As it goes
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you"
