Feudalism in Colonial America
Subtitle: a survey
By: Thomas, Lord of Shalford.
Contributors: Charlotte Museum of History (Charlotte, N.C.)
Publisher: Lords Feudal of Great Britain
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Charters -- Exhibitions.; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources -- Exhibitions.; North Carolina -- Charters -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.; Sources
First sentence: Nothing was further from the minds of those who controlled the coloniza-tion of the New World than the idea of free land for farmers, or expanding infant ideas of religious tolerance and political expression.
Description: How many Carolinians know their government used to be a system of noble titles and privilege, and land worked by serfs before slavery? English feudalism still impacts the order of things in America and, especially the Carolinas. Discover how English feudal traditions are still shaping the Carolinas in the twenty-first century. Most of America’s institutions trace their ancestry to England. Feudalism, not freedom, was the basis of the English colonization of North America; the charters granted by successive English kings to individual and corporate subjects, having ambitions to achieve wealth and power in the New World, confirmed this. The manorial system was brought to America by English and Dutch governments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a method to help colonize and govern the New World without having to lay out large sums of money. The introduction of manor-based government in North America was, largely, very successful.
Notes: "Feudalism in colonial America and the Mecklenburg connection : from Queen Elizabeth I, a feudal barony is traced : historic documents on exhibit, December 1998 - January 1999, Charlotte Museum of History"--Cover.
Table of contents: class: section
title: Introduction								ii; class: section
title: Preface								       iii; class: section
title: ILLUSTRATIONS / Europe Lays Claim to the New World: Seals of Colonial American governments	  	following page vi; class: section
title: Old Ideas in the New World				1; class: section
title: Dutch and English Preeminence			2; class: section
title: English Manorialism						4; class: section
title: English Royal Charters					5; class: section
title: The Province of Maine						8; class: section
title: Royal Charters in the Middle Colonies		13; class: section
title: The “Carolana” Charter					15; class: section
title: The Rhode Island and Georgia Charters		20; class: section
title: The Pennsylvania Charter					21; class: section
title: Present-day American Manors				24; class: section
title: America’s Feudal Legacy of Law			29