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Carolina's Lost Colony: Stuarts Town and the Struggle for Survival in Early South Carolina
2023 George C. Rogers Jr. Award Finalist, best book of South Carolina history
An examination of the dual Scottish–Yamasee colonization of Port Royal
Those interested in the early colonial history of South Carolina and the southeastern borderlands will find much to discover in Carolina's Lost Colony in which historian Peter N. Moore examines the dual colonization of Port Royal at the end of the seventeenth century. From the east came Scottish Covenanters, who established the small outpost of Stuarts Town. Meanwhile, the Yamasee arrived from the south and west. These European and Indigenous colonizers made common cause as they sought to rival the English settlement of Charles Town to the north and the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine to the south. Also present were smaller Indigenous communities that had long populated the Atlantic sea islands. It is a global story whose particulars played out along a small piece of the Carolina coast.
Religious idealism and commercial realities came to a head as the Scottish settlers made informal alliances with the Yamasee and helped to reinvigorate the Indian slave trade—setting in motion a series of events that transformed the region into a powder keg of colonial ambitions, unleashing a chain of hostilities, realignments, displacement, and destruction that forever altered the region.
An examination of the dual Scottish–Yamasee colonization of Port Royal
Those interested in the early colonial history of South Carolina and the southeastern borderlands will find much to discover in Carolina's Lost Colony in which historian Peter N. Moore examines the dual colonization of Port Royal at the end of the seventeenth century. From the east came Scottish Covenanters, who established the small outpost of Stuarts Town. Meanwhile, the Yamasee arrived from the south and west. These European and Indigenous colonizers made common cause as they sought to rival the English settlement of Charles Town to the north and the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine to the south. Also present were smaller Indigenous communities that had long populated the Atlantic sea islands. It is a global story whose particulars played out along a small piece of the Carolina coast.
Religious idealism and commercial realities came to a head as the Scottish settlers made informal alliances with the Yamasee and helped to reinvigorate the Indian slave trade—setting in motion a series of events that transformed the region into a powder keg of colonial ambitions, unleashing a chain of hostilities, realignments, displacement, and destruction that forever altered the region.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2022
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March 29, 2025
This book offers readers an informative look at Stuarts Town, and a new look at Colony-Native Relations in the late 1600s Carolina Colony.
While dry at times, the narrative that Dr. Moore (who I've had the pleasure of taking classes under) provides us a surprising, and beautiful narrative of cooperation that, as often happens in Colonial History, turned into slavery for the Native people. Overall, Dr. Moore looks at a particular part of history that doesn't often get seen in survey history: Slavery as it pertains to Native Americans, and cordial, even friendly relations, between settlers and natives. By grafting together the narrative with the information that the area around Stuarts Town was often a contested area between England and Spain, what you get in this short book of Four main Chapters sheds light upon an area of history that is often not talked about.
While dry at times, the narrative that Dr. Moore (who I've had the pleasure of taking classes under) provides us a surprising, and beautiful narrative of cooperation that, as often happens in Colonial History, turned into slavery for the Native people. Overall, Dr. Moore looks at a particular part of history that doesn't often get seen in survey history: Slavery as it pertains to Native Americans, and cordial, even friendly relations, between settlers and natives. By grafting together the narrative with the information that the area around Stuarts Town was often a contested area between England and Spain, what you get in this short book of Four main Chapters sheds light upon an area of history that is often not talked about.
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