The African American Experience and the Creek War, 1813-14: An Annotated Bibliography
Braund KH. 2017. The African American Experience and the Creek War, 1813-14: An Annotated Bibliography. NPS: Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. Daviston, Alabama
This annotated bibliography sought to identify primary, secondary, and tertiary sources related to the experience of African-Americans prior to, during, and after the Creek War (1813-1814) and the War of 1812. For the period immediately following the Creek War, the project also sought information on Creek activities in the First Seminole War as well as the period between the Creek War and Removal. Following Removal, information was sought on the rise of a slave society in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, on former Creek land. Over the decades, African Americans encountered and lived among Creeks in a variety of circumstances as interpreters, laborers, adopted family members, husbands and wives of Creeks, and as enslaved people. The nature of these relationship changed over time, as did perceptions of race and enslavement among the Creeks. This bibliographic essay comprises a review of the most pertinent secondary works related to the topic as well as an overview of the broad categories of primary documents that yield information on African-Americans and their experiences among the Creeks. The period just prior to the war, the period of warfare from 1813-1814, as well as the period that follows to Indian Removal are privileged in the acquisition of primary material.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Braund, Kathryn
- Date of Issue
- 2017-08-08
- Publisher
- NPS: Horseshoe Bend National Military Park
- Units
- HOBE
- Keywords
- Andrew Jackson, Apalachicola, Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Creek, Creek War, Emancipation, HOBE, Horseshoe Bend, National Park Service, NPS, Red Stick Creek, Seminole, Slave, Slavery, Tennessee, Tennessee Militia, Upper Creek