Hungry for History?: Tomochichi: Friend and Ally of the Georgia Colony
When: Mon., Aug. 5, 3:30 p.m. 2019
Much remains unknown about how Tomochichi and the Yamacraws came to occupy Yamacraw Bluff as a community apart from the Creek nation. Yet his and his people’s presence there made all the difference to Oglethorpe’s success with the Georgia colony. Roger Smith tells the story of a friendship with much larger implications for intercultural relations nearly unprecedented in the story of British North America.