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McGillivray of the Creeks (Paperback, Pbk. ed)
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McGillivray of the Creeks (Paperback, Pbk. ed)
Series: Southern Classics
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First published in 1939, McGillivray of the Creeks is a unique mix
of primary and secondary sources for the study of American Indian
history in the Southeast. The historian John Walton Caughey's brief
but definitive biography of Creek leader Alexander McGillivray
(1750-1793) is coupled with 214 letters between McGillivray and
Spanish and American political officials. The volume offers
distinctive firsthand insights into Creek and Euroamerican
diplomacy in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi in the aftermath of
the American Revolution as well as a glimpse into how historians
have viewed the controversial Creek leader. McGillivray, the son of
a famous Scottish Indian trader and a Muskogee Creek woman, was
educated in Charleston, South Carolina, and, with his father's
guidance, took up the mantle of negotiator for the Creek people
during and after the Revolution. While much of eighteenth-century
American Indian history relies on accounts written by non-Indians,
the letters reprinted in this volume provide a valuable Indian
perspective into Creek diplomatic negotiations with the Americans
and the Spanish in the American South. Crafty and literate,
McGillivray's letters reveal his willingness to play American and
Spanish interests against one another. Whether he was motivated
solely by a devotion to his native people or by the advancement of
his own ambitions is the subject of much historical debate.
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