“Independence Lost by Kathleen Duval”
Toward the Revolution? Independence Lost gives a outlook of the Revolutionary Era from various directions.
The history of the Revolutionary Era was influenced by slaves, American Indians, women, and British loyalists living on Florida's Gulf Coast. Part one of Independence Lost, Kathleen Duval focused and introduced the region of the Gulf Coast and the eight central characters, showing how their personal background and the history of their people brought them to the Gulf Coast showing how they affected toward the revolution. This book’s Characters lived only a thousand miles away from where the war began and you will notice that the thirteen colonies use the war to forward their own ambitions from themselves,…show more content… Payamataha main goal was to keep his people out of the war. The peace was paying off because they no longer lived within fortifications, not just because they felt more comfortable and secure but also as a sign to all to inform enemies that they have changed their ways. Secondly, she introduces us to Alexander McGillivary, who is a lot like Payamataha. Why? because Alexander is also a leader who had a clear vision of who he was and what he wanted for his people. Alexander made a lot of Southeastern indian society, with that being said he will make a empire that could protect Creek independence against colonists and provide economic opportunities to ambitious Scotsmen in trade. Third she talked about Oliver Pollock and Margaret O’Brien. The Pollocks were a protestant family whose ancestors had settled in northern Ireland as part of England’s Colonization. Oliver and his wife built an independence fortune for their family by finding ways around the rules and by closely affiliating himself with Spanish
