Dangerous Ground

The squatter--defined by Noah Webster as "one that settles on new land without a title"--had long been a fixture of America''s frontier past. In the antebellum period, white squatters propelled the Jacksonian Democratic Party to dominance and the United States to the shores of the Pacific. In a bold reframing of the era''s political history, John Suval explores how Squatter Democracy transformed t...