"The "Trade Do's Not Flourish as Formerly
The Ecological Origins of the Yamassee War of 1715
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2741071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard L Haan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 341 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/481137 |
| OpenAlex | W2332577725 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 10 |
Oni Good Friday, 1715, the Yamassees and Lower Creeks ignited an Indian war which almost engulfed South Carolina. While the Yamassee War's significance in southern colonial history has long been recognized, its origins have yet to be explained fully. The most widely accepted thesis holds that the Yamassees and their neighbors rebelled because English traders, who for years had extended credit to Indians, began to enslave Indians after 1710 for failure to pay their debts. To avoid slavery, the Yamassees chose war. Yet this interpretation fails to explain why, after almost twenty-five years of trade, the Yamassees and Lower Creeks were suddenly incapable of paying their debts. The Yamassee War erupted because of complex shifts in South Carolina's environment. Between 1700 and 1710 the overhunting of coastal deer herds, the expansion of cattle and pig raising, the rapid development of rice cultivation, and the elimination of the Spanish mission Indians in northwestern Florida combined to exhaust the Yamassees' trade resources in deerskins and Indian slaves. This depletion forced the Yamassees deeper into debt and eventually into war
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |