Wars Within Wars - The Good Friday Massacre

American Political History · Jul 23, 2022 · 18m

South Carolina in 1715 was not a colony of farms — it was a trading firm with a coastline, running the largest deerskin and Indian-slave operation in English America through a web of rough men who lived alone in the native towns. Its closest ally, the Yamasee, had been its sharpest slaving partner for a generation — until the deer thinned, the captives ran out, and the debt came due, collectable under the trade’s own logic in the bodies of their own people. This episode follows the engine to the morning it turned: the six Carolinians who walked into the Yamasee town of Pocotaligo on the eve…