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

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...

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Main Author: Tortora, Daniel J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Join'd together: the Anglo-Cherokee Alliance, 1730-1753
  • A general conflagration: the French and Indian War begins
  • Killed on the path: Cherokees in the campaigns against Fort Duquesne
  • Till satisfaction shou'd be given: the crises of 1759 and the Lyttelton Expedition
  • A situation too terrible for us: smallpox and social upheaval
  • Put to death in cold blood: the Fort Prince George Massacre
  • That kindred duty of retaliation: the Cherokee offensive of 1760
  • Flush'd with success: Cherokee victory and the fall of Fort Loudoun
  • Destroying their towns and cutting up their settlements: the Grant campaign
  • To bury the hatchet, and make a firm peace: terms and tensions
  • The turbulent spirit of Gadsden: the origins of independence
  • Conclusion: revolutionary implications.