The Edge of Empire - Ohio Country

American Political History · Dec 25, 2022 · 17m

In 1737, three runners set off through the Pennsylvania woods in a rigged footrace that stripped the Lenape of a million acres — and the men who lost their homeland were never once asked. This is the story usually told as a swindle. It is really something older: the story of the powerful deciding the fate of the weak between themselves, and informing them afterward. From the Walking Purchase and the Iroquois orator who ordered the Lenape off their own land — “you are women... remove immediately” — to the great collision in the Ohio country, where Britain and France prepared to carve up a…