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David La Vere , The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013, $30.00). Pp. 262. isbn 978 1 4696 1090 0 .
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A coalition of Indian groups from eastern North Carolina struck against the colonial settlements south and west of Albemarle early one September morning in 1711, killing some 130 people and kidnapping perhaps twenty-five more. For two years following, Tuscarora and allied warriors kept the settlers on edge with further raids. The fledgling planter elite of North Carolina appealed to their peers in Virginia and South Carolina for military aid, for the Quaker-dominated Assembly would muster neither men nor supplies. South Carolina settlers, delighted at a slave-raiding opportunity, sent Indian armies in 1712 and again in 1713. Meanwhile, Virginia governor Alexander Spotswood negotiated with King Tom Blount to keep northern groups of Tuscarora neutral. John Barnwell, commander of the initial South Carolina campaign, blamed the lack of support from North Carolina for his failure to score a complete victory. A tentative peace treaty was under negotiation, until colonial treachery trapped more Tuscarora into slavery. Anyway,...