Cartography of Deceit: The Legislative Treason of the Yazoo Land Fraud

What happens when almost every single politician in a state legislature is secretly bribed to pass a law selling off millions of acres of public land to private shell companies for literal pennies on the dollar? The Yazoo Land Fraud of 1795 was the first massive, institutional corruption scandal in American history, nearly tearing the young republic apart. In 1795, four highly organized, private...