“What the mind can’t remember the blood can’t forget”

A Demand of Blood is Nadia Dean’s epic saga of adversity and triumph, and the first comprehensive book to chronicle the Cherokee War of 1776. A Demand of Blood: The Cherokee War of 1776 examines the collision of the British-Cherokee alliance with frontier settlers in the American Revolution. Historian and journalist Nadia Dean examines the 18th century southern frontier—a place of rapid change and political unrest. Based on eight years of extensive primary source research, Nadia Dean’s scholarship examines unpublished 18th-century manuscripts, which reveals a complex tapestry of cultures converging on the southern colonial frontier on the eve of the Revolutionary War.