| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717. By Alan Gallay. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xviii, 444 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-300-08754-3.)

The Indian slave trade in the early American South has long been overdue for systematic investigation. Verner Crane outlined the general contours of the trade in The Southern Frontier, but since its 1928 publication the lack of primary sources on the subject has discouraged others from examining the trade in more detail. Alan Gallay's The Indian Slave Trade fills this gaping hole in our understanding of the early South. The book is divided into four sections. The first, after a brief examination of the Mississippian era, traces the early origins of the slave trade on the Carolina coast with the Westo and Yamassee Indians and their English and Scottish trading partners. Section 2 examines European and Indian responses to the trade. Section 3 focuses closely on South Carolina's Indian policies. The concluding section looks at the consequences of the Indian slave trade, including the Tuscarora war of 1711 and the Yamassee war of 1715. . . .

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