The Yamasee Indians
Title | The Yamasee Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Denise I. Bossy |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2018-11-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1496212290 |
2019 William L. Proctor Award from the Historic St. Augustine Research Institute The Yamasee Indians are best known for their involvement in the Indian slave trade and the eighteenth-century war (1715–54) that took their name. Yet, their significance in colonial history is far larger than that. Denise I. Bossy brings together archaeologists of South Carolina and Florida with historians of the Native South, Spanish Florida, and British Carolina for the first time to answer elusive questions about the Yamasees’ identity, history, and fate. Until now scholarly works have rarely focused on the Yamasees themselves. In southern history, the Yamasees appear only sporadically outside of slave raiding or the Yamasee War. Their culture and political structures, the complexities of their many migrations, their kinship networks, and their survival remain largely uninvestigated. The Yamasees’ relative obscurity in scholarship is partly a result of their geographic mobility. Reconstructing their past has posed a real challenge in light of their many, often overlapping, migrations. In addition, the campaigns waged by the British (and the Americans after them) in order to erase the Yamasees from the South forced Yamasee survivors to camouflage bit by bit their identities. The Yamasee Indians recovers the complex history of these peoples. In this critically important new volume, historians and archaeologists weave together the fractured narratives of the Yamasees through probing questions about their mobility, identity, and networks.
The Yamasee Indians
Title | The Yamasee Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Denise I. Bossy |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2022-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1496230388 |
Archaeologists of South Carolina and Florida and historians of the Native South, Spanish Florida, and British Carolina address elusive questions about Yamasee identity, political and social networks, and the fate of the Yamasees after the Yamasee War.
The Yamasee War
Title | The Yamasee War PDF eBook |
Author | William L. Ramsey |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0803237448 |
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.
Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Title | Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Beck |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2013-06-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107022134 |
Offers a new framework for understanding the transformation of the Native American South during the first centuries of the colonial era.
Yamasee Indians
Title | Yamasee Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Mico Se'khu Gentle-Hadjo (Chief) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Folk tales |
ISBN |
The Yamassee are farmers, fierce warriors, hunter gatherers , and descendants of the Mound Builders. A Southeastern Tribal Nation, with the ability to call to arms, many tribes that were all apart of the Yamassee Confederacy. Called by many the “Ancient of People”, “Gentle”, and “Children of the Sun” for their dark complexion. The Yamassee has truly left a mark in Native history! Connected historically to more than several states, such as North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, & South Carolina, the saga of the congressional described “Negro” Indians unfolds. —publisher.
A Colonial Complex
Title | A Colonial Complex PDF eBook |
Author | Steven J. Oatis |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0803235755 |
In 1715 the upstart British colony of South Carolina was nearly destroyed in an unexpected conflict with many of its Indian neighbors, most notably the Yamasees, a group whose sovereignty had become increasingly threatened. The South Carolina militia retaliated repeatedly until, by 1717, the Yamasees were nearly annihilated, and their survivors fled to Spanish Florida. The war not only sent shock waves throughout South Carolina's government, economy, and society, but also had a profound impact on colonial and Indian cultures from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi River. Drawing on a diverse range of colonial records, A Colonial Complex builds on recent developments in frontier history and depicts the Yamasee War as part of a colonial complex: a broad pattern of exchange that linked the Southeast?s Indian, African, and European cultures throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the first detailed study of this crucial conflict, Steven J. Oatis shows the effects of South Carolina?s aggressive imperial expansion on the issues of frontier trade, combat, and diplomacy, viewing them not only from the perspective of English South Carolinians but also from that of the societies that dealt with the South Carolinians both directly and indirectly. Readers will find new information on the deerskin trade, the Indian slave trade, imperial rivalry, frontier military strategy, and the major transformations in the cultural landscape of the early colonial Southeast.
The Indian Slave Trade
Title | The Indian Slave Trade PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Gallay |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0300133219 |
This prize-winning book is the first ever to focus on the traffic in Indian slaves in the American South. For decades the Indian slave trade linked southern lives and created a whirlwind of violence and profit-making. Alan Gallay documents in vivid detail the operation of the slave trade, the processes by which Europeans and Native Americans became participants in it, and the profound consequences it had for the South and its peoples.