Bibliograph

Carolina in crisis, Cherokees, colonists, and slaves in the American southeast, 1756-1763, Daniel J. Tortora

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Carolina in crisis, Cherokees, colonists, and slaves in the American southeast, 1756-1763, Daniel J. Tortora

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Carolina in crisis

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Daniel J. Tortora

Sub title

Cherokees, colonists, and slaves in the American southeast, 1756-1763

Summary

In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora chronicles the series of clashes that erupted from 1758 to 1761 between Cherokees, settlers, and British troops. The conflict, no insignificant sideshow to the French and Indian War, eventually led to the regeneration of a British-Cherokee alliance. Tortora reveals how the war destabilized the South Carolina colony and threatened the white coastal elite, arguing that the political and military success of the Cherokees led colonists to a greater fear of slave resistance and revolt and ultimately nurtured South Carolinians' rising interest in the movement for independence.Drawing on newspaper accounts, military and diplomatic correspondence, and the speeches of Cherokee people, among other sources, this work reexamines the experiences of Cherokees, whites, and African Americans in the mid-eighteenth century. Centering his analysis on Native American history, Tortora reconsiders the rise of revolutionary sentiments in the South while also detailing the Anglo-Cherokee War from the Cherokee perspective

Target audience

adult

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