Wars Within Wars - Indian Country

American Political History · Jul 23, 2022 · 19m

Four hundred miles from the coast, an English trader winters in a town that will never see an English soldier — selling guns, buying deerskins and human beings, the farthest reach of a colony into a continent it cannot control. This is the world the southern wars were fought in: a borderland where three empires pressed against the most powerful nations in the South, and where none of them gave the orders. Carolina, armed and hungry and pointed at the interior. Spanish Florida, a century and a half old, holding a line of mission towns that doubled as pens for slave-raiders. And, newly landed…