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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 - Saunt, Claudio
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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 ...

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A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816 1999, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521669436

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A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816 1999, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521660433

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