ISBN:
9780813947785
,
9780813947792
Language:
English
Pages:
xlviii, 95 Seiten
Series Statement:
Early American histories
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Traunter, Richard Travels of Richard Traunter
DDC:
305.897/075
Keywords:
Traunter, Richard Travel
;
Traunter, Richard Travel
;
Traunter, Richard Travel
;
Indians of North America Social life and customs 17th century
;
Indians of North America Social life and customs 17th century
;
Indians of North America Social life and customs 17th century
;
White people Relations with Indians
;
History
;
Diaries
;
Travel writing
;
Reisebericht
;
Tagebuch
Abstract:
"This work chronicles two treks of Richard Traunter's through the Native Southeast in the late seventeenth century, when a smallpox epidemic was killing unprecedented numbers of Indians, and when the Indian slave trade was contributing to depopulation. Traunter was a trader who made pacts with several Indian nations to increase profits for himself and his employer, William Byrd I, and by extension, to advance the English colonial enterprise"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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