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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459764303321

Autore

Hudson Angela Pulley

Titolo

Creek paths and federal roads [[electronic resource] ] : Indians, settlers, and slaves and the making of the American South / / Angela Pulley Hudson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0400-0

0-8078-9827-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

975.004/97385

Soggetti

Creek Indians - Land tenure - Southern States - History

Creek Indians - Government relations

Creek Indians - Relocation

Indian trails - Southern States - History

Roads - Southern States - History

Transportation - Southern States - History

Creek War, 1813-1814

Electronic books.

Creek Nation History

Southern States Boundaries History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : old paths, new paths -- Territoriality and mobility in eighteenth-century Creek country -- Settling boundaries and negotiating access -- Opening roads through Creek country -- War comes to the Creeks -- A new wave of emigration -- Remapping Creek country.

Sommario/riassunto

In Creek Paths and Federal Roads, Angela Pulley Hudson offers a new understanding of the development of the American South by examining travel within and between southeastern Indian nations and the southern states, from the founding of the United States until the forced removal of southeastern Indians in the 1830s.During the early national period, Hudson explains, settlers and slaves made their way along Indian



trading paths and federal post roads, deep into the heart of the Creek Indians' world. Hudson focuses particularly on the creation and mapping of boundaries between Creek