Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815, Second Edition
Deerskins and Duffels documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern United States. The Creeks were the largest Indian nation in the Southeast, and through their trade alliance with the British colonies, they became the dominant Native power in the area.

The deerskin trade became the economic lifeblood of the Creeks after European contact. This book is the first to examine extensively the Creek side of this trade, especially the impact of commercial hunting on all aspects of Indian society. British trade is examined as well: the major traders and trading companies, how goods were taken to the Indians, how the traders lived, and how trade was used as a diplomatic tool. The author also discusses the Creek-Anglo cooperation in the trade of Indian slaves that resulted in the virtual destruction of the Native peoples of Florida. This second edition features a new introduction by the author.

Kathryn E. Holland Braund is a professor of history at Auburn University. She is the coauthor of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians, available in a Bison Books edition.
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Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815, Second Edition
Deerskins and Duffels documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern United States. The Creeks were the largest Indian nation in the Southeast, and through their trade alliance with the British colonies, they became the dominant Native power in the area.

The deerskin trade became the economic lifeblood of the Creeks after European contact. This book is the first to examine extensively the Creek side of this trade, especially the impact of commercial hunting on all aspects of Indian society. British trade is examined as well: the major traders and trading companies, how goods were taken to the Indians, how the traders lived, and how trade was used as a diplomatic tool. The author also discusses the Creek-Anglo cooperation in the trade of Indian slaves that resulted in the virtual destruction of the Native peoples of Florida. This second edition features a new introduction by the author.

Kathryn E. Holland Braund is a professor of history at Auburn University. She is the coauthor of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians, available in a Bison Books edition.
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Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815, Second Edition

Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815, Second Edition

Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815, Second Edition

Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815, Second Edition

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Deerskins and Duffels documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern United States. The Creeks were the largest Indian nation in the Southeast, and through their trade alliance with the British colonies, they became the dominant Native power in the area.

The deerskin trade became the economic lifeblood of the Creeks after European contact. This book is the first to examine extensively the Creek side of this trade, especially the impact of commercial hunting on all aspects of Indian society. British trade is examined as well: the major traders and trading companies, how goods were taken to the Indians, how the traders lived, and how trade was used as a diplomatic tool. The author also discusses the Creek-Anglo cooperation in the trade of Indian slaves that resulted in the virtual destruction of the Native peoples of Florida. This second edition features a new introduction by the author.

Kathryn E. Holland Braund is a professor of history at Auburn University. She is the coauthor of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians, available in a Bison Books edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780803218567
Publisher: Nebraska Paperback
Publication date: 11/01/2008
Series: Indians of the Southeast
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile: 1570L (what's this?)

About the Author


Kathryn E. Holland Braund is a professor of history at Auburn University. She is the coauthor of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians, available in a Bison Books edition.

Table of Contents


Introduction
List of Illustrations and Maps
Series Editors' Introduction
Preface
PART I: PARTNERS IN TRADE
1. The Eighteenth-Century Muscogulges
2. Trade: "The Original Great Tye"
3. Merchants to the Muscogulges
PART 2: HUNTING AND TRADING
4. The Creeks as Producers for a Trade Economy
5. Traders and Trading
6. "Runagadoes" and the Regulation of the Trade
PART 3: THE TRADE AND ITS IMPACT ON NATIVE LIFE
7. Consumerism and Its Consequences
8. Politics and the Trade Alliance
9. Old Needs and New Partners: The American Revolution and Beyond
Appendix: Regulations for the Better Carrying on the Trade with the Indian Tribes in the Southern District
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 
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