Creek paths and federal roads [electronic resource] : Indians, settlers, and slaves and the making of the American South / Angela Pulley Hudson.
2010
E99.C9 H83 2010eb
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Creek paths and federal roads [electronic resource] : Indians, settlers, and slaves and the making of the American South / Angela Pulley Hudson.
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9780807898277 (electronic bk.)
9780807833933
9780807871218 (pbk.)
9780807833933
9780807871218 (pbk.)
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
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English
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1 online resource (xiii, 252 p.) : ill., maps
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E99.C9 H83 2010eb
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975.004/97385
Summary
Hudson examines travel within and between southeastern Indian nations and the southern states from the founding of the United States until the forced removal of southeastern Indians in the 1830s. She focuses particularly on the creation and mapping of boundaries between Creek Indian lands and the states that grew up around themthe development of roads, canals, and other internal improvements within these territoriesand the ways that Indians, settlers, and slaves understood, contested, and collaborated on these boundaries and transit networks.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-242) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : old paths, new paths
Territoriality and mobility in eighteenth-century Creek country
Settling boundaries and negotiating access
Opening roads through Creek country
War comes to the Creeks
A new wave of emigration
Remapping Creek country.
Territoriality and mobility in eighteenth-century Creek country
Settling boundaries and negotiating access
Opening roads through Creek country
War comes to the Creeks
A new wave of emigration
Remapping Creek country.