| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South. By William L. Ramsey. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xii, 307 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-3972-2.)

The Yamasee War (1715–1718) ended the Indian slave trade, brought about the collapse of proprietary government in South Carolina, strengthened Spanish and French prospects in the region, and encouraged the development of powerful Indian confederacies including the Creek and Catawba nations. Although the conflict plays a central role in two major works on the early South, Verner Crane's The Southern Frontier, 1670–1732 (1929) and Alan Gallay's The Indian Slave Trade (2002), it remains understudied and, according to William L. Ramsey, misunderstood. In explaining the war's origins, Crane and Gallay cite several factors but place most of the blame on Carolina's lawless traders. Ramsey argues that such an explanation fails to capture the complex motives that drove English and Indian actions at each phase of the conflict.

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