Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gould, Eliga H

Titel

The New World and the Old

Ist Teil von

• Among the Powers of the Earth, 2012, p.178-209

Ort / Verlag

United States: Harvard University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• When did the colonial era in American history end? The answer depends on where one stands. In some places—eastern Georgia, for example—it makes sense to think of 1776 as marking the beginning of the United States’ history as an independent nation. For the Indians of Apalachee Bay, however, Florida was still part of Spain’s empire when Milly Francis saved the life of Duncan McKrimmon, a Georgia militiaman whom warriors from her town captured during Andrew Jackson’s invasion in 1818. By all accounts, Milly, who was probably fifteen, possessed uncommon grace, beauty, and intelligence. Because her father was the