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George Galphin and the Transformation of the Georgia-South Carolina Backcountry (Paperback)
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George Galphin and the Transformation of the Georgia-South Carolina Backcountry (Paperback)
Series: New Studies in Southern History
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The focus of this work is a reconstruction of the life and career
of an Ulster-Scot fur trader, George Galphin (pronounced Golfin),
who immigrated to South Carolina in the colonial period. The thesis
of this work is that his life and career helped to shape the
history of the backcountry of Georgia and South Carolina in three
distinct ways. First, his support of a "for profit" Indian trade
(as opposed to a "for stability trade") shaped Anglo-Indian
relations between frontier settlers and their Indian neighbors.
Ultimately, men like Galphin helped the United States move away
from the British policy towards Native Americans in favor of a
uniquely American policy which ran the gamut from exploitation to
land seizures and finally toward Indian Removal itself. The book
involves a look at the histories of the Muskogee Creeks and
Cherokees who were his clients and has a heavy Native American
component. Galphin's second major influence on the Southeast came
with the creation of the Ulster-Scot communities he sponsored in
both South Carolina and Georgia. The relocation plans catered
strictly to the Scots-Irish Protestants and located them in "danger
zones" between coastal settlements of Anglo-Saxon British settlers
and the Indian frontiers of the two colonies. Galphin's third major
influence came during the American Revolution when he was appointed
as a Patriot Indian Commissioner fighting to control the
southeastern tribes and keep them out of the war. In that role, he
made his contribution, as did so many others, that helped secure a
Patriot victory. This part of his story would be of note to an
audience interested in the American Revolution in the South from
the perspective of the backcountry. Finally, his family life
included the creation of a large, multi-racial family which helped
establish the Creole society of the Eastern Georgia/Western South
Carolina. His spouses and children included Caucasians, Native
Americans, and African-Americans. Two of Galphin's daughters were
his slaves until his death.
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