A new order of things : property, power, and the transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
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A new order of things : property, power, and the transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
(Cambridge studies in North American Indian history)
Cambridge University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The story told here is a critical yet unknown chapter in the creation of the American Republic. Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians and forever changed the Deep South. By 1800, some Creeks, whose most valuable belongings had once been deerskins, owned hundreds of African-American slaves and thousands of cattle. Their leaders, who formerly strove for consensus, now ruled by force. New property fostered a new possessiveness, and government by coercion bred confrontation. A New Order of Things was the first book to chronicle this decisive transformation in America's early history, a transformation that left deep divisions between the wealthy and poor, powerful and powerless.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Power and Prosperity Before the New Order 1733-1783
- 1. Fair persuasions: power among the Creeks
- 2. 'Martial virtue, and not riches': the Creek relationship to property
- Part II. The New Order Emerges 1784-1796: 3. Alexander McGillivray: Mestizo yet Indian
- 4. Forging a social compact
- 5. Blacks in Creek country
- Part III. The 'Plan of Civilization' 1797-1811: 6. New roles for women and warriors
- 7. Creating a Country of Laws and Property
- 8. The power of writing
- 9. The hungry years
- Part IV. The New Order Challenged 1812-1816: 10. Seminole Resistance
- 11. The Redstick war
- 12. The negro fort.
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