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The Bringing of Wonder Trade and the Indians of the Southeast, 1700-1783
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Michael P. Morris
Book Code: GM0843
ISBN: 0-313-30843-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30843-7
176 pages, maps, photographs
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/1999
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
Series Number: 36
Description: In the relations between colonial European traders and the Indians of the southern backcountry, trade was a powerful manipulative tool used by both sides in their attempts to control each other. This anthropological and sociological study examines how European traders sought out native women as cultural instructors, translators, and sexual companions. The network of native women, fur traders, and colonial diplomats functioned as an invisible social, political, and economic web throughout the backcountry. Although this web was an integral part of the colonial struggle for the region, it is often overlooked or ignored in conventional histories. Women played a key role in this system of economic exchange. They benefitted materially from this arrangement, while the traders enjoyed increased political power as a result of the cohabitation. These Anglo-Indian unions helped to impose Euroamerican values on native societies, and, in part, the women functioned as unofficial diplomats for their people. Colonial governments hoped that the efforts of these frontier traders would impose stability on the tribes, but the profit-seeking of many such traders often resulted in bloody conflict instead.
Table of Contents:
  • The Language of Trade
  • Walkers Between Two Worlds: Native American Women and Trade
  • Mary Musgrove and Nancy Ward: Beloved Women of the Southern Indians
  • Women of Trade: Indian Women in Southeastern America
  • Fur Traders and Indian Agents
  • The Price of Wonder: The High Cost of Trade
  • Stuart's America: Relations with the Southern Indians During the Superintendency of John Stuart
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 98-28290
LCC Class: E78
Dewey Class: 381
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