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Alan Gallay
Colonial and Revolutionary America takes a regional approach to understanding the peoples and colonies of early America.
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European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. Although central to the process of colony-building in what became the United States, this phenomena has…
Through the career of a remarkable individual-which spanned the founding of Georgia, the Revolution, and the birth of the new republic-Gallay chronicles the rise of the plantation slavery system in…
First published in 1996, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference resource that pulls together a vast amount of material on a rich historical era, presenting it in a balanced way…
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From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and coloniser, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire
Jonathan Bryan (1708-88) became one of colonial Georgia’s richest, most powerful men. Bryan’s contemporaries, in terms of their large holdings of land and slaves, were markedly traditional and conservative. As…
European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. Although central to the process of colony building in what became the United States, this phenomena…
This title focuses on the traffic in Indian slaves in the American South. Alan Gallay documents in vivid detail the operation of the slave trade, the processes by which Europeans…
Archaeologists of South Carolina and Florida and historians of the Native South, Spanish Florida, and British Carolina address elusive questions about Yamasee identity, political and social networks, and the fate…
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. Yet, their significance in colonial history is…
Spanning the period from the earliest European expeditions to the eve of the Civil War, this book assembles a collection of first hand perspectives on the forces and experiences that…
John B. Boles
The eight essays included here show that throughout the antebellum period, southern whites and blacks worshipped together, heard the same sermons, took communion and were baptized together, were subject to…
