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The Travels of Richard Traunter : Two Journeys through the Native Southeast in 1698 and 1699 /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (146 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813947808 |