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themselves, in fact, to limit their access to alternative sources of European
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goods between 1680 and 1704 by assisting in the destruction of the Spanish
mission system in Florida. Having thus entered into . . . [an exclusive trading]
relationship with Charles Town by the first decade of the eighteenth century,
one in which there is only a single buyer of goods, Yamasees . . . may have
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found it necessary to engage English officials more aggressively in order to
affect the terms of exchange. Even so, their prominence in the historical
record should not be read simply as evidence of greater victimization. In
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many cases, their protests suggest they were active, intelligent participants
in exchange, attempting purposefully to influence and direct the process for
their own advantage.”
Excerpt from William L. Ramsey, “Something Cloudy in Their Looks”:
The Origins of the Yamasee War Reconsidered, Journal of American History,
vol. 90, no. 1, June 2003, pp. 44–75, https://doi.org/10.2307/3659791.
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