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- Genre: Novel (Romance) (x)
- Publication date: 1820s (x)
- Subject heading: Beaufort (S.C.) -- Fiction (x)
- Time period: British Colonial History (x)
- Dedicatee: Samuel Henry Dickson, M.D. (x)
- Holding Institution: University of South Carolina, South Caroliniana Library (x)
The Yemassee. A Romance of Carolina.British Colonial History | Novel (Romance) | Harper & Brothers | 1835 The Yemassee is historically the best known of
the long fictions of William Gilmore Simms.
Set on the South Carolina frontier, Simms’s third book-length fiction
treats the Yemassee War of 1715-17, when the Yemassee Indians, with their
Spanish and Native American allies, attacked the low country colonial
settlements. Writing in the midst of the
removal of natives from east of the Mississippi to the newly created Indian
Territory in the future Oklahoma, Simms emphasized such motives for the war as
the colonists’ need for land, the conflict between rival European powers ... |
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