Title Indians, settlers & slaves in a frontier exchange economy : the Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 / by Daniel H. Usner, Jr

Published Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents pt. I. The Evolution of a Colonial Region, 1699-1783. 1. Trade and Settlement in the Formation of a Colonial Region. 2. Divergence within Colonial and Indian Societies. 3. The Indian Alliance Network of a Marginal European Colony. 4. Change and Continuity during the Years of Partition -- pt. II. The Frontier Exchange Economy. 5. Farming, Hunting, and Herding. 6. Food Marketing and the Evolution of Regional Foodways. 7. Soldiers, Sailors, and Rowers. 8. The Deerskin Trade as a Market System Summary In this pioneering book Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana, including the province of West Florida. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces the complex social linkages among Indian villages, colonial plantations, hunting camps, military outposts, and port towns across a large region of the pre-cotton south. Usner begins by providing a chronological overview of events in the area from the establishment of a French outpost on the Gulf coast in 1699 to Spanish acquisition of West Florida after the Revolution. He then shows how early confrontations and transactions shaped the formation of Louisiana into a distinct colonial region with a social system based on mutual needs of subsistence. In this area, as in other early colonial regions of North America, Indians, settlers, and slaves interacted with each other and contributed to the regional economy in diverse and fluid ways. After the Lower Mississippi Valley was partitioned between Great Britain and Spain in 1762-1763, argues Usner, the local exchange economy faced new pressures as a result of increased settlement and intensification of export-oriented agriculture along the lower Mississippi River. The flexibility that had characterized cultural and economic interaction began to give way to more rigid boundaries between ethnic groups. Usner's focus on commerce allows him to illuminate the motives in the contest for empire among the French, English, and Spanish, as well as to trace the personal networks of communication and exchange that existed among the territory's inhabitants. By tracing patterns of small-scale, face-to-face exchange, he reveals the economic and social world of early Louisianians and lays the groundwork for a better understanding of later Southern society Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL American Historical Association John H. Dunning Prize for U.S. history, 1993 Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL pda Subject HISTORY -- Native American. Commerce Indians of North America -- History. Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803. Mississippi River Valley -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century. Indians of North America -- Southern States -- History. Handel Ruilhandel. Indianen. Kolonisatie. Slaven (arbeid) Tausch. Handel. Geschichte. Geschichte (1699-1783) SUBJECT Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 18th century Mississippi River Valley -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086212 Subject Mississippi River Valley United States, Southern States -- History. United States, Southern States -- Native races. United States, Southern States -- Slavery and bondage. Unterer Mississippi -- Region Louisiana Florida -- West USA. Mississippi (Fluss) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) LC no. 91026689 ISBN 9781469611471 1469611473

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