Native Lands
Abstract
This chapter tracks this region from dominance by the Tunica, Choctaw, and other Indigenous nations until after the Seven Years’ War when it became British West Florida. In that period British officials attempted to build Indigenous alliances and offered land grants to establish plantations until the American Revolution, when Spain invaded and claimed the region for itself. Officials in Spanish West Florida used land grants to recruit settlers and reinvigorated the African slave trade, resulting in a growth in population as well as enslaved resistance.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Colonialism
slavery
and trade
Indigenous Cultures and History
Latin American history and culture
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 13–38
- Publication date
- 5 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter