Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina. By D.A.Johnson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2024. xv + 219 p. $54.95 (hb). ISBN 978‐1‐4214‐4980‐7.

D. Andrew Johnson's ambitious and tightly focused book will interest early Americanists working on enslavement, food, and water in early America.In Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina, Johnson aims to bridge between histories of enslavement: on the one hand, about Native Americans (including Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Cusabos, Onondagas, Pamunkeys, Powhatans, Rickahockans, Savannahs, Tuscaroras, and Yamasees) and, on the other hand, about people of African descent (primarily Gambians, Angolans, and Eboes).He successfully achieves his aims by exploring plantation management, crop production, and harbours, rivers, creeks, and marshes in South Carolina.For context, Johnson's narrative reaches north to draw on the Powhatan sachem Opechancanough's 1622 and 1644 attacks on the Virginia colony, and the waging of the Pequot War further afield, in the places that became New England.These are conflicts which scholars including