- 402 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1
- 1. Living at Liberty
- 2. Yamasee Migrations into the Mocama and Timucua Mission Provinces of Florida, 1667–1683
- 3. Yamasee Material Culture and Identity
- 4. Cultural Continuity and Change
- Part 2
- 5. Spiritual Diplomacy
- 6. Yamasee-African Ties in Carolina and Florida
- 7. The Long Yamasee War
- Part 3
- 8. The Persistence of Yamasee Power and Identity at the Town of San Antonio de Pocotalaca, 1716–1752
- 9. Refuge among the Spanish
- 10. Chief Francisco Jospogue
- 11. The Yamasee in West Florida
- List of Contributors
- Index
- About Denise I. Bossy