| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756–63. By John Oliphant. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. xviii, 269 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2637-3.)

This highly complex and poorly organized work covers Cherokee relations primarily with South Carolina and secondarily with Virginia during the Seven Years' War. Whereas the Cherokees actively fought beside the British army against France and her Indian allies in 1757–1758, conflicts with the white settlers stemming from this alliance helped produce a Cherokee war with South Carolina in 1759 and with the British army in 1760 and 1761. 1

John Olipant's hero, Lt. Col. James Grant, led the campaign that destroyed the Cherokee Middle settlements in 1761, but he always revealed "more sympathy for the Cherokees than for the white settlers." Most historians have treated Grant as an able and humane officer despite his destruction of fifteen towns and all their food supplies. Grant himself thought he had treated the Indians too harshly; Andrew Pickens, a young South Carolina officer on the campaign, thought it typified "british cruelty which I always abhorred" (Pickens to Lee, Aug. 28, 1811, Sumter MSS, I, 107, Draper Collection, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison), and Attakullakulla, the Little Carpenter, dubbed Grant "the Corn Puller." Nevertheless, Grant in the peace preliminaries negotiated "the honourable compromise he and the Carpenter had always wanted." All South Carolina's demands for land and retaliatory executions were dropped, and a peace was created that at least had a chance of holding. . . .

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