Title: Deerskins & duffels : the Creek Indian trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815 /
Authors: Braund, Kathryn E. Holland, 1955-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Creek Indians Commerce.; Creek Indians Economic conditions.; Creek Indians History; South Carolina Commerce Great Britain.; Great Britain Commerce South Carolina.
Abstract: This book examines extensively the Creek side of trade with the British colonies and the impact of commercial hunting on all aspects of Indian society. The processes of the trade from the British side are detailed. The major traders and trading companies, how the goods were taken to the Indians, how the traders lived and conducted business, and how the trade was used as a diplomatic tool.
Contents: pt. I. Partners in Trade. 1. The Eighteenth-Century Muscogulges. 2. Trade: "The Original Great Tye" 3. Merchants to the Muscogulges -- pt. 2. Hunting and Trading. 4. The Creeks as Producers for a Trade Economy. 5. Traders and Trading. 6. "Runagadoes" and the Regulation of the Trade -- pt. 3. The Trade and Its Impact on Native Life. 7. Consumerism and Its Consequences. 8. Politics and the Trade Alliance. 9. Old Needs and New Partners: The American Revolution and Beyond -- Appendix: Regulations for the Better Carrying on the Trade with the Indian Tribes in the Southern District.