Title The four deaths of Acorn Whistler : telling stories in colonial America / Joshua Piker

Published Cambridge : Harvard University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: April 1, 1752 -- Introduction: Acorn Whistler and the Storytellers -- 1. The Governor -- 2. The Governor's Story -- 3. The Emperor -- 4. The Emperor's Story -- 5. The Family and Community -- 6. The Family and Community's Story -- 7. The Colonists -- 8. The Colonists' Story -- Epilogue: June 5, 1753 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index Summary Told by a colonial governor, a Creek military leader, Native Americans, and British colonists, each account of Acorn Whistler's execution for killing five Cherokees speaks to the collision of European and Indian cultures, the struggle to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire on the eve of the American Revolution Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the condemned man's fate: the collision of European and Native American cultures, the struggle of Indians to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire as the American Revolution approached. At the hand of his own nephew, Acorn Whistler was executed in the summer of 1752 for the crime of murdering five Cherokee men. War had just broken out between the Creeks and the Cherokees to the north. To the east, colonists in South Carolina and Georgia watched the growing conflict with alarm, while British imperial officials kept an eye on both the Indians' war and the volatile politics of the colonists themselves. They all interpreted the single calamitous event of Acorn Whistler's death through their own uncertainty about the future. Joshua Piker uses their diverging accounts to uncover the larger truth of an early America rife with violence and insecurity but also transformative possibility Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Acorn Whistler, -1752 Acorn Whistler, -1752 -- Death SUBJECT Acorn Whistler, -1752 fast Subject Creek Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography Cherokee Indians -- Violence against -- South Carolina -- Charleston BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) HISTORY -- North America. British colonies Death Colonies -- Administration SUBJECT Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125644 Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century Subject America South Carolina -- Charleston Southern States Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2012041388 ISBN 9780674075603 0674075609 0674075625 9780674075627

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