Native Americans in the Early Carolinas

The Whispers of Charleston · Oct 3, 2026 · 6m

Today were going to talk about some of the Tribes that made up the Carolinas.

During the late 1600s to 1700s, England, Spain and France struggled to gain colonies throughout the world, Competition between England and Spain for the southern colonies prompted constant warfare between their allied Native American _groups. In the 1680s, the Y amasee (also spelled Yemassee) arrived in the Beaufort area and quickly became the primary trading partners of Carolina, dealing mostly in Native American slaves. Their raids on Spanish-allied groups to the south brought thousands of captured Native…