Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783

by Daniel H. Usner, Jr. and Daniel H. Usner Jr.

Book Overview

In this pioneering book Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana, including the province of West Florida. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces the complex social linkages among Indian villages, colonial plantations, hunting camps, military outposts, and port towns across a large region of pre-cotton...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080784358X
• ISBN13: 9780807843581
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating Study of a Neglected Subject

Usner's Indians, Settlers and Slaves is a highly readable and path-breaking study of economic interactions in southern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama before the formation of the 'Old South.' Here is a world of great social complexity, and surprising equality, featuring the Upper Mississippi Valley in a time of low settlement density. A must for anyone trying to understand the long-term settlement dynamic of the South.