The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina

by William Gilmore Simms, John Caldwell Guilds (Editor)

Overview

Viewed from today's perspective, The Yemassee dramatically and unflinchingly bares the manipulation, exploitation, and eventual genocide of a proud indigenous nation that preferred extinction to the surrender of its land and the subjugation of its people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557283023
Publisher:	University of Arkansas Press
Publication date:	07/01/1993
Series:	The Simms Series , #7
Pages:	504
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

Editorial Reviews

Simms (1806-1870) wrote novels and short fiction dealing with pre- colonial and colonial warfare with Native Americans, and with the American frontier. The subject of the novel presented here (with introduction, historical background, and notes) is the Yemassee (or Yamassee) Indians who occupied the coastal areas of South Carolina in the late 1600s and early 1700s and had considerable interaction with the colonists, the Spanish in Florida, and other tribes of the area. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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