The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through the Era of Revolution - Hardcover

Hatley, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195069897 ISBN 13: 9780195069891

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Focusing on the American Cherokee people and the South Carolina settlers, this book traces the two cultures and their interactions from 1680, when Charleston was established as the main town in the region, until 1785, when the Cherokees first signed a treaty with the United States. Hatley retrieves the unfamiliar dimensions of a world in which Native Americans were at the center of Southern geopolitics and in which radically different social assumptions about the obligations of power, the place of women, and the use of the land fed the formative cultural psychology of the colonial South. Weaving together firsthand accounts, journals, and letters to give a human reality to the facts of war, politics, and the economy, he pinpoints the revolutionary decade--from the little known but decisive Cherokee war through the Revolution itself--in which both societies struggled over their own identities. Rather than focusing on the Cherokees and Carolinians separately, this book focuses on contacts, encounters, exchanges, intersections: their mutual history. Hatley argues that Cherokee and colonial histories cannot be understood separately--that they are inextricably linked--and that the origins of distinctive features of Native American and colonial ethnicity and seemingly unrelated twists in the political history of each society are rooted in this encounter.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book traces the interactions between the Cherokee people and the South Carolina settlers, from the establishment of Charleston in 1680, until the first Cherokee treaty in 1785.

About the Author:

Tom Hatley is at Catskill Center for Conservation and Development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0195069897
• ISBN 13: 9780195069891
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352