Both Native South and Deep South: The Native Transformation of the Gulf South Borderlands, 1770–1835

dc.contributor.advisorBoles, John B.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberGoetz, Rebecca A.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBratter, Jenifer L.en_US
dc.creatorWainwright, Jamesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-16T17:00:41Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-16T17:00:44Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-09-16T17:00:41Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-09-16T17:00:44Zen_US
dc.date.created2013-05en_US
dc.date.issued2013-09-16en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2013en_US
dc.date.updated2013-09-16T17:00:44Zen_US
dc.description.abstractHow did the Native South become the Deep South within the span of a single generation? This dissertation argues that these ostensibly separate societies were in fact one and the same for several decades. It significantly revises the history of the origins of antebellum America’s slave-based economy and shows that the emergence of a plantation society in Alabama and Mississippi was in large part a grassroots phenomenon forged by Indians and other native inhabitants as much as by Anglo-American migrants. This native transformation occurred because of a combination of weak European colonial regimes, the rise of cattle, cotton, and chattel slavery in the region, and the increasingly complex ethnic and racial geography of the Gulf South. Inhabitants of the Gulf South between the American Revolution and Indian removal occupied a racial and social milieu that was not distinctly Indian, African, or European. Nor can it be adequately defined by hybridity. Instead, Gulf southerners constructed something unique. Indians and native non-Indians—white and black—owned ranches and plantations, employed slave labor, and pioneered the infrastructure for cotton production and transportation. Scotsmen and Spaniards married Indians and embraced their matrilineal traditions. Anglo- and Afro-American migrants integrated into an emergent native cotton culture in which racial and cultural identities remained permeable and flexible. Thus, colonial and borderland-style interactions persisted well into the nineteenth century, even as the region grew ever more tightly bound to an expansionist United States. The history of the Gulf South offers a perfect opportunity to bridge the imagined divide between the colonial and early republic eras. Based on research in multiple archives across five states, my work thus alters our understanding of the history and people of an American region before the Civil War and reshapes our framework for interpreting the nature of racial and cultural formation over the long course of American history.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationWainwright, James. "Both Native South and Deep South: The Native Transformation of the Gulf South Borderlands, 1770–1835." (2013) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/72058">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/72058</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.slug123456789/ETD-2013-05-553en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/72058en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectIndiansen_US
dc.subjectCattleen_US
dc.subjectRanchingen_US
dc.subjectCottonen_US
dc.subjectAlabamaen_US
dc.subjectMississippien_US
dc.subjectCreeksen_US
dc.subjectChoctawsen_US
dc.subjectChickasawsen_US
dc.subjectSeminolesen_US
dc.subjectSouthern statesen_US
dc.subjectBorderlandsen_US
dc.subjectNative Americansen_US
dc.subjectAmerican historyen_US
dc.titleBoth Native South and Deep South: The Native Transformation of the Gulf South Borderlands, 1770–1835en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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