L.H. Roper's innovative study provides a transatlantic analysis of the origins of American colonial societies through the instructive case of South Carolina. The work provides the clearest examination of the early history of this important colony yet available. In addition, it features exhaustive primary research that sheds new light on how the colony's particular dependence on race-based slavery evolved, demonstrating the volatile tension between the political culture inherited from the "Old World" and local interests in the Indian slave trade. Conceiving Carolina is an important scholarly contribution to the history of the early American colonies and the Atlantic World.
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"Roper's subject is compelling, given the cast of characters and events that made proprietary South Carolina what it was. Roper's original take on the formative period of South Carolina's distinctive history will catch the scholar's notice and raise an eyebrow or two, but all who pore over Conceiving Carolina will be treated to a fascinating story that is as instructive as it is well told." --Warren M. Billings, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of History, University of New Orleans
"Conceiving Carolina is a welcome contribution to the scholarly literature on colonial South Carolina. Focusing on the era of proprietary government, it delineates the complex relationships that arose between London courtiers, West Indian planters, Yamassee warriors, Anglican missionaries, Huguenot refugees, British and Irish settlers, and African slaves. As Roper shows, the colony's early social and political development replicated patterns evident throughout the British Atlantic; at the same time, a major theme is the weakness of the centralizing Anglo-British state along its transoceanic periphery. Historians will find much of value in this book."--Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire
"Roper's study is a rich source of information on the first sixty-seven years of Carolina's history."--Catherine Cardno, Johns Hopkins University
"Conceiving Carolina is a welcome contribution to the scholarly literature on colonial South Carolina. Focusing on the era of proprietary government, it delineates the complex relationships that arose between London courtiers, West Indian planters, Yamassee warriors, Anglican missionaries, Huguenot refugees, British and Irish settlers, and African slaves. As Roper shows, the colony's early social and political development replicated patterns evident throughout the British Atlantic; at the same time, a major theme is the weakness of the centralizing Anglo-British state along its transoceanic periphery. Historians will find much of value in this book."--Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire
"Roper's study is a rich source of information on the first sixty-seven years of Carolina's history."--Catherine Cardno, Johns Hopkins University
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"Roper`s subject is compelling, given the cast of characters and events that made proprietary South Carolina what it was. Roper`s original take on the formative period of South Carolina`s distinctive history will catch the scholar`s notice and raise an eyebrow or two, but all who pore over Conceiving Carolina will be treated to a fascinating story that is as instructive as it is well told." --Warren M. Billings, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of History, University of New Orleans
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Interesting account of earliest European incursion into what is now South Carolina. A study of not just what came to pass, but what was intended or attempted, too. Well documented and a fairly easy read, considering the type of literature. Recommended only for history buffs or those who have an existing interest in South Carolina. Would probably not provide significant insight into the origins of other American Colonies.
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This is an accessible, well-researched, and engaging book on early South Carolinian history.
The ease with which this book can be read belies the tremendous research that has been undertaken by the author.
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On October 19, 1666, John Harrison, Esquire, steward on the Benham Valente, Berkshire estate of the earl of Craven, convened the court leet and court baron for the manor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weightier sort, proprietary board, lords proprietors, proprietary period, proprietary regime, temporary laws, little earl, prospective migrants, proprietary government, other proprietors, grand council Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Goose Creek, Fundamental Constitutions, Charles Town, Conceiving Carolina, Sir Nathaniel, Ashley River, South Carolina, Sir John, Commons House, Sir Peter Colleton, Stuarts Town, Board of Trade, Port Royal, Church of England, James Colleton, James Moore, Privy Council, Yamassee War, Civil Wars, Lord Cardross, Old World, Giles Edisto, New England, New York, Thomas Smith New!
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On October 19, 1666, John Harrison, Esquire, steward on the Benham Valente, Berkshire estate of the earl of Craven, convened the court leet and court baron for the manor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weightier sort, proprietary board, lords proprietors, proprietary period, proprietary regime, temporary laws, little earl, prospective migrants, proprietary government, other proprietors, grand council Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Goose Creek, Fundamental Constitutions, Charles Town, Conceiving Carolina, Sir Nathaniel, Ashley River, South Carolina, Sir John, Commons House, Sir Peter Colleton, Stuarts Town, Board of Trade, Port Royal, Church of England, James Colleton, James Moore, Privy Council, Yamassee War, Civil Wars, Lord Cardross, Old World, Giles Edisto, New England, New York, Thomas Smith New!
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- South Carolina (Gousha Fastmap) by Don Wood on 7 pages
- Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (Norton Library) by Peter H. Wood on 6 pages
- The Shaftesbury Papers (Images of America: South Carolina) by South Carolina Historical Society on 4 pages
- A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (Key Texts) by Perez Zagorin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Two Treatises of Government by John Locke in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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