| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733–1752. By Julie Anne Sweet. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xii, 267 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2675-5.)

Eschewing the often-used metaphor of the middle ground, Julie Anne Sweet employs negotiation as a theoretical tool for understanding Euro-Indian cultural encounters in colonial Georgia during the trustee era (1733–1752). In a lucid narrative, Sweet begins with the philanthropic origins of the Georgia colony and the origins of the Yamacraws, the Indian leader Tomochichi's displaced band of Lower Creeks. The negotiations begin with James Oglethorpe's and Tomochichi's early attempts to forge a personal bond, which foreshadowed the first Georgia-Creek treaty in 1733. Sweet rightfully devotes an entire chapter to the Yamacraw delegation's famous trip to England in 1734, during which Tomochichi proved adept at negotiating favorable prices for trade goods and securing presents from the Georgia trustees. Largely due to the efforts of Oglethorpe and Tomochichi, the Georgians and Lower Creeks found common ground through the War of Jenkins' Ear (c. 1739–1743), which Sweet labels the "height of cooperation" (p. 140), due to the important role played by Indians as military auxiliaries.

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