ABSTRACT
He first witnessed to members of his family and when they rejected his newfound evangelical spirit, Marrant fled to the wilderness seeking solace among the beasts of the woods. He soon encountered a Cherokee deer hunter and they spent ten weeks together hunting deer by day and making brush arbors to provide sanctuary for themselves by night. Becoming fast friends by the end of the hunting season, the hunter and the missionary returned to the hunter’s village. However, when he attempted to pass the outer guard at the Cherokee village, they seized him and placed him in prison.4 It was not Marrant’s blackness that troubled the Cherokee; it was more likely his dressing in the manner of a European colonist that was the
source of his trouble. The Carolina frontier was, at this time, the scene of constant siege between colonists and Indians.
