| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5 | The History Cooperative

Gregory A. Waselkov. A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814. (Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication.) Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 414. $39.95.
In the summer of 1813, a large group of Creek Indian warriors attacked the plantation home of Samuel Mims in the Tensaw district of Alabama. The assault, quickly labeled the Fort Mims Massacre, resulted in the deaths and occasional mutilation of at least 250 Indians, white Americans, and African Americans. In addition to initiating a devastating Creek civil war, the assault at Fort Mims transformed the history of the United States. The consequent hue and cry in the American South resulted in, among other things, the rise of Andrew Jackson, the end of Thomas Jefferson's civilization plan for American Indians, and the geographic expansion of the slave South.	1
Gregory A. Waselkov provides by far the most levelheaded and detailed description of the events that surrounded the assault on Fort Mims. He demonstrates that this pivotal moment in southeastern Indian history had a tangled web of social, cultural, political, and economic causes, and he explores how this assault and the Creek civil war that ensued resulted from the tensions born from the Creeks long history of colonialism. Similarly, Waselkov reveals how the assault and the American response to it permanently reshaped the southeastern landscape.	. . .

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