| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs, 1759–1775. By Robin F. A. Fabel. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. x, 282 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-1798-X.)

At first glance, Colonial Challenges appears to be a volume trying to explain, from a Native point of view, what happened in North America between the 1760s and 1770s that turned British success against the French into failure against unlikely opponents—Britain's own colonists and subjects. If that were the writer's intention, he offers little that illuminates the shrouded path from success in 1763 to the penning of Thomas Jefferson's immortal words in 1776. 1

The question is: what happened? We usually talk about a series of parliamentary actions that led to tea in Boston's harbor. Robin F. A. Fabel reminds us that the geographic location of the Cherokees kept them surrounded by enemies; sugar caused conflict on St. Vincent Island; and the North American map after 1763 placed small Mississippi tribes between Spaniards and British colonists, who made life both interesting and miserable for those Native populations. . . .

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