By Steven C Hahn
ISBN-10: 0813042216
ISBN-13: 9780813042213
The tale of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English girl suffering for fulfillment in colonial society, is an implausible one.
As a literate Christian, entrepreneur, and spouse of an Anglican clergyman, Mary was once considered one of a small variety of "mixed blood" Indians to accomplish a place of prominence between English colonists. Born to a Creek mom and an English father, Mary's bicultural background ready her for an eventful maturity spent within the tough and tumble global of Colonial Georgia Indian affairs.
Active in international relations, exchange, and politics--affairs mostly ruled by means of men--Mary labored as an interpreter among the Creek Indians and the colonists--although a few argue that she did so for her personal earnings, changing translations to sway transactions in her want. Widowed two times within the leading of her lifestyles, Mary and her successive husbands claimed massive tracts of land in Georgia (illegally, as British officers might have it) via advantage of her Indian history, thereby souring her courting with the colony's governing officers and significantly straining the colony's courting with the Creek Indians.
Using Mary's existence as a story thread, Steven Hahn explores the attached histories of the Creek Indians and the colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. He demonstrates how the fluidity of race and gender family at the southern frontier finally succumbed to extra inflexible hierarchies that supported the region's rising plantation system.
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