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A new order of things : property, power, and the transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
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ISBN: 1280153911 0511117892 051104058X 0511150717 0511302037 0511511558 0511048505 9780511040580 0521660432 9780521660433 052166943X 9780521669436 9780511048500 9780511117893 9780511511554 9786610153916 6610153914 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The story told here is a critical yet unknown chapter in the creation of the American Republic. Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians and forever changed the Deep South. By 1800, some Creeks, whose most valuable belongings had once been deerskins, owned hundreds of African-American slaves and thousands of cattle. Their leaders, who formerly strove for consensus, now ruled by force. New property fostered a new possessiveness, and government by coercion bred confrontation. A New Order of Things was the first book to chronicle this decisive transformation in America's early history, a transformation that left deep divisions between the wealthy and poor, powerful and powerless.

Black, white, and indian : race and the unmaking of an American family
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ISBN: 0195313100 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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