Creating and Contesting Carolina

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The essays in Creating and Contesting Carolina shed new light on how the various peoples of the Carolinas responded to the tumultuous changes shaping the geographic space that the British called Carolina during the Proprietary period (1663-1719). In doing so, the essays focus attention on some of the most important and dramatic watersheds in the history of British colonization in the New World.

These years brought challenging and dramatic changes to the region, such as the violent warfare between British and Native Americans or British and Spanish, the no-less dramatic development of the plantation system, and the decline of proprietary authority. All involved contestation, whether through violence or debate. The very idea of a place called Carolina was challenged by Native Americans, and many colonists and metropolitan authorities differed in their visions for Carolina. The stakes were high in these contests because they occurred in an early American world often characterized by brutal warfare, rigid hierarchies, enslavement, cultural dislocation, and transoceanic struggles for power.

While Native Americans and colonists shed each other's blood to define the territory on their terms, colonists and officials built their own version of Carolina on paper and in the discourse of early modern empires. But new tensions also provided a powerful incentive for political and economic creativity. The peoples of the early Carolinas reimagined places, reconceptualized cultures, realigned their loyalties, and adapted in a wide variety of ways to the New World.

Three major groups of peoples—European colonists, Native Americans, and enslaved Africans—shared these experiences of change in the Carolinas, but their histories have usually been written separately. These disparate but closely related strands of scholarship must be connected to make the early Carolinas intelligible. Creating and Contesting Carolina brings together work relating to all three groups in this unique collection.

Sujets

• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Fort Neoheroka
• Atlantic World
• Kieft's War
• Cary's Rebellion
• Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
• Yamasee War
• Eleutheran Adventurers
• Covenant Chain
• Tuscarora War
• Raid on the Medway
• King Philip's War
• State
• Bacon's Rebellion
• Queen Anne's War
• South
• Letter of marque
• Privateer
• History of the Americas
• Proprietary colony
• United States
• Olaudah Equiano
• FL
• Local
• KY
• LA
• Stede Bonnet
• TN
• MS
• SC
• NC
• AR
• VA
• GA

Informations

• Publié par: University of South Carolina Press
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781611172737
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Creating and Contesting Carolina
The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
Sponsored by the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World of the College of Charleston
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Memory and Identity Edited by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Randy J. Sparks
This Remote Part of the World Bradford J. Wood
The Final Victims James A. McMillin
The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Edited by Peter A. Coclanis
From New Babylon to Eden Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World Edited by Margaret Cormack
Who Shall Rule at Home? Jonathan Mercantini
To Make This Land Our Own Arlin C. Migliazzo
Votaries of Apollo Nicholas Michael Butler
Fighting for Honor T. J. Desch Obi
Paths to Freedom Edited by Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks
Material Culture in Anglo-America Edited by David S. Shields
The Fruits of Exile Edited by Richard Bodek and Simon Lewis
The Irish in the Atlantic World Edited by David T. Gleeson
Ambiguous Anniversary Edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis
Creating and Contesting Carolina Edited by Michelle LeMaster and Bradford J. Wood
Proprietary Era Histories
Edited by
Michelle LeMaster and Bradford J. Wood
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Creating and contesting Carolina : proprietary era histories / edited by Michelle LeMaster and Bradford J. Wood. pages cm. (The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-61117-272-0 (hardbound : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-61117-273-7 (ebook) 1. South Carolina History Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775. 2. North Carolina History Colonial period, ca . 1600–1775. 3. Tuscarora Indians Wars, 1711 1713. 4. Indians of North America South Carolina History. 5. Indians of North America North Carolina History. I. LeMaster, Michelle, 1970– author, editor of compilation. II. Wood, Bradford J., 1970– author, editor of compilation. F272.C895 2013 975.7’02 dc23 2013011562
Portion of “Cutting one another’s throats” appears courtesy of the University of Tennesee Press.
C ONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Note on Maps
List of Maps
Abbreviations
Introduction: Creating and Contesting Carolina
Michelle LeMaster and Bradford J. Wood
P ART I
Backgrounds
Defining Carolina: Cartography and Colonization in the North American Southeast, 1657–1733
S. Max Edelson
Venturing Out: The Barbadian Diaspora and the Carolina Colony, 1650–1685
Justin Roberts and Ian Beamish
Dr. Henry Woodward’s Role in Early Carolina Indian Relations
Eric E. Bowne
P ART II
Violence and Conflict
The Economic Philosophies of Indian Trade Regulation Policy in Early South Carolina
Jessica Stern
“Cutting one anothers throats”: British, Native, and African Violence in Early Carolina
Matthew Jennings
“Before long to be good friends”: Diplomatic Perspectives of the Tuscarora War
Stephen Feeley
War, Masculinity, and Alliances on the Carolina Frontiers
Michelle LeMaster
Histories of the “Tuscarora War”
James Taylor Carson
P ART III
Building Plantations, Challenging Authority
Thomas Pollock and the Making of an Albemarle Plantation World
Bradford J. Wood
Diversity in the Slave Trade to the Colonial Carolinas
Gregory E. O’Malley
Marooned: Politics and Revolution in the Bahamas Islands and Carolina
Alexander Moore
“The Proprietors can’t undertake for what they will do”: A Political Interpretation of the South Carolina Revolution of 1719
Hanno T. Scheerer
Protecting the Rights of Englishmen: The Rise and Fall of Carolina’s Piratical State
Mark G. Hanna
P ART IV
Aftermaths
Forging Alliances: The Impact of the Tuscarora War on North Carolina’s Political Leadership
Christine Styrna Devine
“The Indians that live about Pon Pon”: John and Mary Musgrove and the Making of a Creek Indian Community in South Carolina, 1717–1732
Steven C. Hahn
Contributors
Index
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book emerged out of conversations between the editors while they stayed with a group of friends at a rented beach house on Oak Island, North Carolina in May 2009. Conversation threads about seafood restaurants, water temperatures, and bird watching became interwoven with conversations about historiographies and about the relations between natives and settlers. If references to the Tuscarora or the Yamasee became tedious for the others in the beach house, they bore it with the easygoing patience of good friends on a vacation. The pleasant and supportive company of that beach house turned out to be a harbinger of things to come for a volume that has been built on the willing assistance and cooperative spirit of many others. In fact, while the editors like to think that this volume provides evidence of many important findings, it may above all else be a testimony to the value of collaboration in academic research and writing. Both editors had already learned about working as part of a community of talented, generous, and hardworking scholars when they began doctoral work and became participants in the Johns Hopkins Seminar on Colonial British America in 1995, and, in many ways, this volume also grew out of that earlier positive experience.
Whatever experiences and ideas the editors brought to this volume, they have been blessed with an outstanding and cooperative group of contributors who have made the book their own. Putting together a collection of essays on a few especially neglected decades in the history of two relatively neglected colonies may sound like a good decision, but it can only work if other scholars are ready and willing to address challenging and understudied issues. Initially, the editors did not know whether they would be able to find enough other scholars to make this volume a reality, but the essays included here have substantially exceeded their expectations. Some of the contributors, such as Stephen Feeley, included work in progress that had helped inspire the editors’ initial planning. Others, such as Greg O’Malley and Jamey Carson, were persuaded to undertake new work and pursue new lines of inquiry at the request of the editors. All are appreciated.
As the editors sought contributors and attempted to define the parameters of the volume, they recognized the limits of their own scholarly expertise and distinctive perspectives and asked many others for input and advice. We were struck by the many great suggestions and helpful comments we received from a wide range of scholars. In addition to the editors and contributors, some of those who participated in various conversations about this volume included Denise Bossy, Jeff Crow, Alec Haskell, Wayne Lee, Brendan McConville, Matt Mulcahy, Alex Moore, David Preston, Bill Ramsey, Daniel Richter, Kristi Rutz-Robbins, Peter Wood, Craig Yirush, and Natalie Zacek. We hope that they will be pleased by some of the decisions we made and will forgive us if we did not always benefit sufficiently from their good advice. Members of the Kentucky Early American Studies Seminar also provided comments on the volume’s initial project description, a draft of the introduction, and one of the chapters.
One of the volume’s contributors, Max Edelson, provided special expertise to make maps available to the readers of this volume. As the foregoing pages explain, he created the MapScholar website which includes a variety of relevant maps that are referenced in the book. We feel that access to this project has been a significant asset to the book, and we appreciate Max’s considerable efforts. He received assistance from Lee Wilson Bowden, Rebecca Green, and Bill Ferster.
Any substantial academic publication requires support from institutions as well as from individuals. At Eastern Kentucky University, Bradford Wood benefitted from the resources of the Department of History, ably chaired first by David Coleman and then by Chris Taylor, and of the College of Arts and Sciences under the supportive direction of Dean John Wade. Helpful comments and advice also came from Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. and from John Bowes. Diane Tyer assisted with some administrative tasks. At Lehigh University, Michelle LeMaster received funding for travel related to this project through a Faculty Research Grant. The History Department, under the chairmanship of Steve Cutcliffe, has also supplied resources as well as the invaluable administrative support of Janet Walters. Monica Najar and Jean Soderlund provide a simulating environment for research in early American history. At the University of South Carolina Press, thanks go to Alex Moore and Linda Fogle for working with us and seeing the volume through the publication process.
Most of the essays in this volume were presented and discussed at a conference hosted by the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World at the College of Charleston in October, 2010. The editors are indebted to the Carolina Lowcountry p