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The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina

The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina

by Alan Gallay (Foreword), Denise I . Bossy (Editor)

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    Illustrated 2018

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Synopsis

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.




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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 372
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 01 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1496207602
ISBN 13: 9781496207609

Media Reviews
A much-needed, remarkably thorough, and impressively interdisciplinary investigation of a critically important but all-too-often misunderstood Native nation. Anyone with an interest in the early American South and its people should read this book. -Joshua Piker, editor of the William and Mary Quarterly, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and professor of history at the College of William and Mary -- Robbie Ethridge
A much needed, remarkably thorough, and impressively interdisciplinary investigation of a critically important but all too often misunderstood Native nation. Anyone with an interest in the early American South and its people should read this book. -Joshua Piker, editor of the William and Mary Quarterly, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and professor of history at the College of William & Mary -- Joshua Piker
This anthology makes a fine addition to the extant scholarship on the Yamasee people, offers a balanced juxtaposition of disciplinary and thematic approaches to the subject, and builds on the scholarship that has come before while casting an eye toward what might be some promising areas for future study. The chapters all interconnect in ways that bespeak a kind of collective and collaborative approach to the topic at hand. -James Taylor Carson, professor and head of the School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Science at Griffith University in Brisbane and author of Thee Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History -- James Taylor Carson
Author Bio
Denise I. Bossy is an associate professor of history at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville.

Alan Gallay is the Lyndon B. Johnson Chair of U.S. History at Texas Christian University. He has authored and edited books, including Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528-1861 (Georgia, 1994) The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670--1717 (Yale, 2002), and Indian Slavery in Colonial America (Nebraska, 2010).