Research Catalog

Title

Aggression and sufferings : settler violence, native resistance, and the coalescence of the Old South / F. Evan Nooe.

Author

Nooe, F. Evan

Publication

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2024]

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Details

Description

xvi, 266 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.

Summary

"In 1823, Tennessee historian John Haywood encapsulated a foundational sentiment among the white citizenry of Tennessee when he wrote of a 'long continued course of aggression and sufferings' between whites and Native Americans. According to F. Evan Nooe, 'aggression' and 'sufferings' are broad categories that can be used to represent the framework of factors contributing to the coalescence of the white South. Traditionally, the concept of coalescence is an anthropological model used to examine the transformation of Indigenous communities in the eastern woodlands from chieftaincies to Native tribes, confederacies, and nations in response to colonialism. Applying this concept to white Southerners, Nooe argues that through the experiences and selective memory of settlers in the antebellum South, white Southerners incorporated their aggression against and suffering at the hands of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeast in the coalescence of a regional identity built upon the violent dispossession of the Native South.This, in turn, formed the development of Confederate identity and its later iterations in the long nineteenth century. Geographically, 'Aggression and Sufferings' prioritizes events in the frontier territories of Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama. Nooe considers how divergent systems of violence and justice between Native Americans and white settlers (such as blood revenge and concepts of honor) functioned in the emergent region and examines the involved societies' conflicting standards on how to equitably resolve interpersonal violence. Nooe then investigates the contemporary and historically interconnected consequences of a series of murders of encroaching white settlers by a faction of the Creek nation known as the 'Red Sticks' in the years preceding the 1813 Creek War. Each episode was connected to immediate grievances by Native Southerners against white colonialism, while white Southerners looked upon the incidents as confirmation of Native savagery. Nooe considers the effort by the burgeoning white population to combat the Red Sticks in the Creek War of 1813-1814 and explains how chroniclers of the white South's past memorialized the 1813 Creek War as a regional conflict. Next, Nooe explores the events between the August 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson to the September 1823 Treaty of Moultrie Creek to evaluate the implications of persistent low-level white-Native conflict in a period traditionally interpreted as the end to the Creek War. He then examines how the Florida Indians' resistance to their expulsion from the South sparked a unifying call to arms from white communities across the region. Finally, Nooe explores how white Southerners constructed, propagated, and perpetuated harrowing tales of colonizers as innocent victims in the violent expulsion of the region's Native peoples before concluding with notes on how this emerging sense of regional history and identity (which ignored the interests and agency of enslaved and free Black people in the early nineteenth century South) continued to flower into the Antebellum period, during Western expansion, and well into the twentieth century. Readers interested in Southern, Indigenous, and Early American history will find a thorough, scholarly examination of the tensions and violence between Natives and white settlers and the construction of a regional memory of white victimization by white Southerners during this period. 'Aggression and Sufferings' speaks to scholarship on settler-colonialism, violence, Native dispossession, white identity, historical memory and monuments, and Southern Studies"--

Series Statement

Indians and southern history

Uniform Title

Indians and southern history.

Alternative Title

Settler violence, native resistance, and the coalescence of the Old South

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Collective memory > Southern States > History > 19th century
• White people > Relations with Indians > History > 19th century
• Indians of North America > Southern States > History > 19th century
• Indians of North America > Relocation
• Settler colonialism > Southern States > History > 19th century
• Violence > Social aspects > Southern States
• Collective memory
• Indians of North America
• Race relations
• Settler colonialism
• Violence > Social aspects
• White people > Relations with Indians
• White people
• Violence
• Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century
• Southern States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) and index.

Contents

"Endeavors to put the guilty to death": systems of violence in the American South -- "Baptized in the blood": settler death and consecrating Native dispossession -- "Thoroughly aroused to vengeance": the invasion of Creek country -- "Half peace, half war": perpetual violence on the southern border -- "Gallant sons of the South": native expulsion and civic militarism -- "Suffering seldom equaled": sharing memories of white victimization -- "Result of this great conquest": sectionalism and southern coalescence.

Call Number

JFE 23-3538

ISBN

• 9780817321741
• 0817321748
• 9780817361136
• 0817361138
• 9780817394738 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023044348

OCLC

1401909572

Author

Nooe, F. Evan, author.

Title

Aggression and sufferings : settler violence, native resistance, and the coalescence of the Old South / F. Evan Nooe.

Publisher

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2024]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Indians and southern history

Indians and southern history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA LANCASTER.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Research Call Number

JFE 23-3538