Settler violence, native resistance, and the coalescence of the Old South

Walter Edgar's Journal

Massacre at Ft. Mims(Boston, L. P. Crown & Co. Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley / Wellesley College Library)

In his book, Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South, Evan Nooe argues that through the experiences and selective memory of settlers in the antebellum South, white southerners incorporated their aggression against and suffering at the hands of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeast in the coalescence of a regional identity.

Nooe joins us for a thought-provoking conversation about the complicated history of the interactions between the many native American tribes and European settlers in what is now the American South.