The Yamasee War by William L. Ramsey

[Name of the Institute]The Yamasee War by William L. Ramsey

Overview

In this paper I will be discussing the happenings of the Yamasee War in the seventeenth century. The paper will include historical events and the impact of the war on the culture, economy and conflict in the colonial south, as presented by William L. Ramsey in his book. Ramsey provides a complete reappraisal of the Yamasee War, an event that takes place next to King Philip's War in New England and Pontiac's Rebellion as a "main three, Indian wars" of the colonial era. Arguing that the Yamasee War may be the line dividing the waters ultimately in the formation of the Old South, Ramsey challenges traditional arguments about the war's origins and positions the prewar concerns of Native Americans in the context of recent comments from the Indian slaves and Atlantic economy (Ramsey, 2008).

War of Yamasee was a violent conflict and bloody inter-tribal clash of Indian American from the Southeast and English settlers in South Carolina from 1715 to 1718. Ramsey discusses the war itself, going far beyond coastal conflicts between Yamasees and Carolinians, however, assesses the regional diplomatic issues that drew so far distant Indian nations as the Choctaws in modern- Mississippi within days of an anti-English extensively. In mapping the Indian bondage decrease in South Carolina during and after the war, the book reveals the change in white racial ideology that responded to the concerns of marine weather, including anxieties about a "black majority" which formed efforts to restore trade relations, Anglo-Indian to control the slave population, and to defend the southern border.

Historical Background

In 1702, when Queen Anne's War began in Europe, South Carolinians believed themselves to be directly threatened by both the French and the Spanish in North America. The triangular-shaped territory between Spanish Florida, French Louisiana, and South Carolina was disputed land, and South Carolina traders had increasingly ventured into it. James Moore, elected governor by the council in 1700, led white and Creek forces to attack St. Augustine in 1702. Although the English devastated the town, the large fortress guarding the town, the Castillo de San Marcos, held. Before retreating overland, Moore burned his own ships to prevent the Spanish from seizing them. Upon his return, angry ship-owners forced him from office. A year later, he personally financed an expedition to northwestern Florida, called Apalache province. Moore and combined white-Indian troops destroyed the Catholic mission system in the area, confiscated church property, and captured about 1,000 Apalachee, whom they sold as slaves to the West Indies. The Spanish retaliated in 1706 by sending Spanish and French warships to Charleston. Charleston residents, however, won an impressive victory. For several years thereafter, the French, Spanish, and English all intrigued against each other, drawing southern Indian nations, primarily the Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw, to one side or the other and creating instability, however these incidents were briefly discussed by Ramsey in his book.

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