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Coosaponakeesa deed and memorials
12018-12-19T10:47:16+00:00Christopher Hagerccc5486c10317faa3407216a45842d5450a4165c13Deed signed by by the Creek interpreter and diplomat Coosaponakeesa (Mary Bosomworth), and set of memorials written by her.plain2018-12-19T10:53:59+00:00Keith M. Read Collection, Collection Number MS921 Box 2 Folder 661740s/1750spdfEnglishCourtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library / University of Georgia Librariestext (manuscript)Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of GeorgiaChristopher Hagerccc5486c10317faa3407216a45842d5450a4165c
1media/Coosaponakeesa detail.JPGmedia/WigBioHead.JPG2018-12-18T13:39:51+00:00Coosaponakeesa Deed and Memorials34Caroline Wigginton - Brief Bioimage_header2019-03-12T13:52:23+00:00
Caroline Wigginton is assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of In the Neighborhood: Women’s Publication in Early America (UMass Press, 2016) and is at work on a new book, Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Material of Early American Books, which examines the aesthetic, material, and imaginative influence of Native craftwork on American literature. With Alyssa Mt. Pleasant and Kelly Wisecup, she is the co-editor of a joint forum for the William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature on Materials and Methods in Native and Indigenous Studies.
