Description 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.
He has authored and edited many books, including Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528-1861
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 ; and Indian Slavery in Colonial America (Nebraska, 2010)..
History at Texas Christian University.
Johnson Chair of U.
S.
Alan Gallay is the Lyndon B.
Bossy is an associate professor of history at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville.
About the author Denise I.
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.
The Yamasee Indians recovers the complex history of these peoples.
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.
Reconstructing their past has posed a real challenge in light of their many, often overlapping, migrations.
The Yamasees\' relative obscurity in scholarship is partly a result of their geographic mobility.
Their culture and political structures, the complexities of their many migrations, their kinship networks, and their survival remain largely uninvestigated.
In southern history, the Yamasees appear only sporadically outside of slave raiding or the Yamasee War.
Until now scholarly works have rarely focused on the Yamasees themselves.
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.
Denise I.
Yet, their significance in colonial history is far larger than that.
Description 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
