The Indian Slave Trade; The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717

by Alan Gallay

• ISBN13: 9780300087543
• ISBN10: 0300087543
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-02-08
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Alan Gallay is professor of history at Western Washington University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Note on the Text and Terminology	xvii
Introduction	1	(22)
PART ONE. THE SOUTH TO 1701
The Mississippian Era	23	(17)
Carolina, the Westo, and the Trade in Indian Slaves, 1670-1685	40	(30)
Crossroad of Cultures: Scots, Yamasee, and the Carolina Colony, 1684-1701	70	(31)
PART TWO. ADJUSTMENTS, 1698-1708
Arkansas, Tunica, Taensa, and French Missionaries: Communication Across the Cultural Divide, 1698-1700	101	(26)
Diplomacy and War, 1699-1706	127	(28)
British Imperialism and Indian Warfare in the South: John Stewart and Thomas Nairne	155	(44)
PART THREE. INTENTIONS, 1707-1711
Indians, Traders, and the Reform of the Indian Trade, 1707-1708	199	(24)
Defining the Empire: Carolina and the Conversion of Indians	223	(18)
Carolina's Indian Traders	241	(18)
PART FOUR. REPERCUSSIONS, 1712-1717
The Tuscarora War	259	(29)
Contours of the Indian Slave Trade	288	(27)
The Yamasee War	315	(30)
Afterword	345	(14)
Notes	359	(70)
Index	429