The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South.(Book review) Journal of Southern History (8/1/2009) The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and...For scholars of the colonial South, the Yamasee War represents one of the premier events...Historians often simplify the reason for the Yamasee War to trade abuse, but Ramsey reveals...
A Colonial Complex: South Carolina's Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730.(Book Review) Journal of Southern History (2/1/2006) ...Carolina's Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730. By Steven J. Oatis...historians still know so little about the Yamasee War (1715-1717), the region-wide...book's scope extends well beyond the Yamasee War itself. Oatis argues convincingly...
Another's Country: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies.(Book Review) Journal of Southern History (11/1/2004) ...Presbyterians at Willtown on the Edisto. The Yamasee Indians, favored traders, lived in turn...took refuge in Spanish Florida after the Yamasee War (1715-1718), the Lowcountry was...synopsis of over two hundred years of Yamasee history, meshing at points with that...
The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. Journal of Social History (3/22/1994) ...exposed frontier, noting the critical role played by the Yamasee Indians as buffers against the Spanish in Florida and as a source of Indian slaves for the Carolinians. The 1715 Yamasee War removed this protection, and stagnating trade and a...
Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815. (book reviews) The American Indian Quarterly (6/22/1994) ...more time procuring skins for trade than they had before the Yamasee War of 1715. Here, as elsewhere in colonial America where...eighteenth century, and especially on the period from the Yamasee War to the beginning of the Revolutionary crisis in the mid...
Leaving Paradise; A mother and daughter take a cross-country trip -- and explore their shared history. The Washington Post (4/23/2006) ...chapters of the present day story, which narrows the gulf between them. The tale begins in 1836 when Nayeli, a beautiful Yamasee Indian, is abducted into slavery. She marries an enslaved African but still must satisfy the lustful whims of her white owner...
Encounters The Boston Globe (10/14/1996) ...head trimmed and ornamented in the true Creek mode. He has been a great warrior, having then attending him as slaves many Yamasee captives, taken by himself when young. They were dressed better than he, and served and waited upon him with signs of the...
The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South.(Book review) Journal of Southern History (8/1/2006) ...indigenous groups. Using such advantages, the Westos depopulated much of the Oconee watershed, forcing the retreat of the Yamasee people to Florida; they afflicted Siouan-speakers in the Carolina coastal plain and Piedmont, setting the stage for the...
Oklahoma native languages at the centennial. World Literature Today (9/1/2007) ...name a few) and the non-Muskogean-speaking peoples who came with the Confederacy: the Euchee, the Natchez, and the Yamasee. It was promised to the Shawnee (even those who where conspicuously absent from mandatory roll-taking), the Potawatomi...
Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715.(Indians of the Southeast)(Book review) Journal of Southern History (5/1/2009) ...Carolina and its native allies--themselves reeling from depopulation--on a collision course that eventually led to the Yamasee War (circa 1715). While it would appear that Kelton's argument turns conventional wisdom on its head, it should be stressed...
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