More Than 300 Years Ago, A War Waged On South Carolina Soil That Forever Changed History
Long before the start of the Revolutionary War, a battle waged in South Carolina would determine not only the fate of the colony, but of America as a whole. The Yemassee War began with an unrest between the Native Americans in several nations (Muscogee, Cherokee, Catawba, Apalachee, Apalachicola, Yuchi, Savannah River Shawnee, Congaree, Waxhaw, Pee Dee, Cape Fear, and Cheraw) in which the Native Americans strived to push out the British settlers by any means.
It was a war waged primarily in the South Carolina province, but also throughout the southeast.
It comes as no surprise that the Native Americans attempted to liberate their lands from the new colonists. Their chief complaints were regarding the trading system, trader abuses, the Indian slave trade, long established Indian links to Florida, power struggles among other Indian groups and regarding wealth among the colonists, and struggles of Indian power among distant tribes.
For over a year, the colony faced total annihilation, as the many native Americans pummeled attack after attack on the colonists and their settlements.
It took several years to attain, but the colonists eventually were able to overthrow the Lord Proprietors. The aftermath also lead to the establishment of the Georgia colony. Also, the Catawba confederacy would emerge from the war as the most powerful Native American force in the region.
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Robin Jarvis is a travel writer and editor for OnlyInYourState.com with a bachelor's degree in Journalism. Her love for travel has taken her to many parts of the world. She's lived in the Carolinas for nearly three decades and currently resides in Charleston. When she's not working, she loves to cook with friends and check out new adventures. General questions and FAM tours: rjarvis@onlyinyourstate.com.
