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‘‘Sometimes bad people take the liberty of stragling into your Country’’ The Struggle to Control Mobility during Pontiac’s War
- Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2016
- pp. 225-257
- 10.1353/eam.2016.0014
- Article
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This essay examines the extent to which struggles among Natives and colonizers to control mobility both influenced and were influenced by Pontiac’s War. It argues that mobility was a fiercely contested issue of empire in areas falling within the overlapping spheres of influence of distinct Indian, colonial, and imperial powers. It also contends that Pontiac’s War marked a pivotal moment in a longer history of conflicts over mobility on the North American continent: events before, during, and after the war significantly altered the ways different groups attempted to regulate the movement of people, goods, and information across physical spaces.