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Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South

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ISBN-10: 0803217595

ISBN-13: 9780803217591

Edition: 2009

Authors: Robbie Ethridge, Sheri M. Shuck-Hall

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List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 11/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 536
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English

Robbie Ethridge, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi, is the author ofCreek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, 1796–1816. Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, an associate professor of history at Christopher Newport University, is the author ofJourney to the West: The Alabama and Coushatta Indians. nbsp; Contributors: Robin Beck, Eric E. Bowne, Robbie Ethridge, Mary Elizabeth Fitts, William A. Fox, Patricia Galloway, Charles L. Heath, Ned J. Jenkins, Mathew H. Jennings, Marvin D. Jeter, Paul Kelton, Maureen Meyers, George Edward Milne, Randolph Noe, Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, Stephen Warren, and John E. Worth.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone
Events as Seen from the North: The Iroquois and Colonial Slavery
From Refugees to Slave Traders: The Transformation of the Westo Indians
"Caryinge awaye their Corne and Children": The Effects of Westo Slave Raids on the Indians of the Lower South
Catawba Coalescence and the Shattering of the Carolina Piedmont, 1540-1675
"Indians Refusing to Carry Burdens": Understanding the Success of Catawba Political, Military, and Settlement Strategies in Colonial Carolina
"The Greatest Travelers in America": Shawnee Survival in the Shatter Zone
Tracing the Origins of the Early Creeks, 1050-1700 CE
Alabama and Coushatta Diaspora and Coalescence in the Mississippian Shatter Zone
Violence in a Shattered World
Razing Florida: The Indian Slave Trade and the Devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659-1715
Shattered and Infected: Epidemics and the Origins of the Yamasee War, 1696-1715
Choctaws at the Border of the Shatter Zone: Spheres of Exchange and Spheres of Social Value
Shatter Zone Shock Waves along the Lower Mississippi
Picking Up the Pieces: Natchez Coalescence in the Shatter Zone
Afterword: Some Thoughts on Further Work
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index