Yamasee Indians Yamasee Indians were Negroes, what were known afterwards as the fiercest of the Indians tribes of the South. The large negro population on the coast of South Carolina is quite different from this here described. The mayor of Beaufort says the town is remarkable for quiet and good order. A most peculiar thing is this Quatrefages in his book on the human race asserts the fact that the Africans lived on these islands long before the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, He is high authority, and he says that the Yamasee Indians were negroes Quote cited from the Congressional serial set United States Government Printing Office 57th Congress 1st Session. House of Representatives Document 179 Report of the Industrial Commission on Agriculture and Agricultural labor. Washington Government printing Office Year 1901, page 824. ***See attached copy of congressional set regarding the Yamasee Indians*** ***Please read the attached congressional hearing in its entirety*** Note to the reader…… Creek Freedmen Cow Tom negotiated and signed the 1866 Creek Treaty on behalf of the Creek Nation which granted citizenship to those Creeks of African descent (Freedmen). Cow Tom was also of Yamasee Indian descent. The Creek, Seminole, Yamacraw and Yamasee Indians were all tribes of the Creek Confederacy.
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