Carolina in crisis : Cherokees, colonists, and slaves in the American southeast, 1756-1763 Daniel J. Tortora

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tortora, Daniel J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French and Indian War (United States : 1754-1763).

Indian Wars (Cherokee : 1759-1761).

Cherokee Indians--Wars, 1759-1761.

Cherokee Indians.

Cherokee Indians--Government relations--History--18th century.

United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Campaigns.

United States.

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

South Carolina.

Physical Description:

x, 274 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Summary:

In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora chronicles the series of clashes that erupted from 1758 to 1761 between Cherokees, settlers, and British troops. The conflict, no insignificant sideshow to the French and Indian war, eventually led to the regeneration of a British-Cherokee alliance. Tortora reveals how the war destabilized the South Carolina colony and threatened the white coastal elite, arguing that the political and military success of the Cherokees led colonists to a greater fear of slave resistance and revolt and ultimately nurtured South Carolinians' rising interest in the movement for independence. Drawing on newspaper accounts, military and diplomatic correspondance, and the speeches of Cherokee people, among other sources, this work reexamines the experiences of Cherokees, whites, and African Americans in the mid-eighteenth century. Centering his analysis on Native American history, Tortora reconsiders the rise of revolutionary sentiments in the South while also detailing the Anglo-Cherokee War from the Cherokee perspective. -- from back cover.

Contents:

Join'd together: the Anglo-Cherokee Alliance, 1730-1753

A general conflagration: the French and Indian War begins

Killed on the path: Cherokees in the campaigns against Fort Duquesne

Till satisfaction shou'd be given: the crises of 1759 and the Lyttelton Expedition

A situation too terrible for us: smallpox and social upheaval

Put to death in cold blood: the Fort Prince George Massacre

That kindred duty of retaliation: the Cherokee offensive of 1760

Flush'd with success: Cherokee victory and the fall of Fort Loudoun

Destroying their towns and cutting up their settlements: the Grant campaign

To bury the hatchet, and make a firm peace: terms and tensions

The turbulent spirit of Gadsden: the origins of independence

Conclusion: revolutionary implications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index.

Local Notes:

The Indian Rights Association Complementary Collection.

The Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complementary Collection.

ISBN:

9781469621227

1469621223

OCLC:

893452506