Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier by Cynthia Cumfer

Author:Cynthia Cumfer [Cumfer, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: history, United States, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), State & Local, South (AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV), Social Science, Ethnic Studies, American, Native American Studies
ISBN: 9780807831519
Google: r_9gTNsPyRYC
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2007-11-15T00:11:49.535523+00:00

After four decades of frontier life, white women and men had distinguished their civilized society from their perceptions of indigenous communities by envisioning and fashioning dense and diverse social and family networks aimed at creating happiness. These connections relied on an emerging cultural logic embracing consent in contractual marriages, informal networks, and voluntary associations and on assumptions privileging merit, the basis for women’s claims of authority and inchoate entitlements and ordinary men’s assertions of social equality. The transformation of the assumptions and ideas of the inhabitants of the settler society was not restricted to the social sphere. White men and, to a lesser degree, white women molded ideas about consent and merit into compactual government and earned participatory rights as they conflated the discourses of republicanism and civilization.

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