Abstract
This chapter examines the Yamasee War from various angles. Most scholars agree that at its root is the Indian slave trade and the inauguration of the Atlantic trade system in the South. With historical hindsight, one can see that the Yamasee War was the outcome of not only the slave trade but also the logic of capitalist extraction, which entails an overexploitation of resources. In short, the Yamasee War occurred for a complex of reasons, not least of which is the fact that the Indian slave trade was crumbling under its own brutal weight. The “frenzy of slaving” could only last so long before population numbers fell below a sustainable margin and slaving victims began to take the offensive.
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