A Colonial Complex: South Carolina’s Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730

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In 1715 the upstart British colony of South Carolina was once nearly destroyed in an unexpected conflict with many of its Indian neighbors, most notably the Yamasees, a group whose sovereignty had develop into more and more threatened. The South Carolina militia retaliated many times until, by 1717, the Yamasees were nearly annihilated, and their survivors fled to Spanish Florida. The war not only sent shock waves right through South Carolina’s government, economy, and society, but also had a profound have an effect on 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 up to date developments in frontier history and depicts the Yamasee War as a part of a colonial complex: a broad pattern of exchange that linked the Southeast’s Indian, African, and European cultures right through the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the first detailed study of this an important 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 not directly. 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.

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