To what extent does the presence of Indigenous peoples disrupt understandings of the American South prior to the 1860s?

The response to the above questions should examine topics covered in the course thus far and analyze and cite a minimum of five-course readings. The following are the articles used: David L. Smiley’s “The Quest for the Central Theme in Southern History”, Jennifer L. Morgan’s “Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder”: Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770, Walter Johnson’s “The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s”, Jeff Forret’s “Slaves, Poor Whites, and the Underground Economy of the Rural Carolinas”, Laura F. Edwards’s “Law, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Patriarchal Authority in the Antebellum South”, and Penningroth’s “Slavery, Freedom, and Social Claims to Property among African Americans in Liberty County, Georgia, 1850-1880.

Please be advised, that, the above sources are the only ones that can be used for citing and sources.

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