The Yamasee War : a study of culture, economy, and conflict in the colonial South / William L. Ramsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramsey, William L., 1961-

Series:

Indians of the Southeast.

Indians of the Southeast

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yamasee War, S.C., 1715-1716.

Yamasee Indians--Wars.

Yamasee Indians.

Yamasee Indians--Commerce.

Enslaved Indians--South Carolina--History.

Enslaved Indians.

South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

South Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Yamasee War was a violent and bloody conflict between southeastern American Indian tribes and English colonists in South Carolina from 1715 to 1718. Ramsey's discussion of the war itself goes far beyond the coastal conflicts between Yamasees and Carolinians, however, and evaluates the regional diplomatic issues that drew Indian nations as far distant as the Choctaws in modern-day Mississippi into a far-flung anti-English alliance. In tracing the decline of Indian slavery within South Carolina during and after the war, the book reveals the shift in white racial ideology that responded to wa

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Introduction: The Problems; Part 1: Tinder; 1. Carolinians in Indian Country; 2. Indian Slaves in the Carolina Low Country; Part 2: Spark; 3. Market Influence; 4. Trade Regulation and the Breakdown of Diplomacy; Part 3: Fire; 5. The Heart of the Alliance; 6. Auxiliary Confederates; Part 4: Ash; 7. Monsters and Men; 8. New Patterns of Exchange and Diplomacy; Conclusion: New Problems; Appendix: The Huspah King's Letter to Charles Craven; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-297) and index.

ISBN:

9786611241469

9781281241467

1281241466

9780803237445

0803237448

OCLC:

437200617