Conceiving Carolina
Subtitle: proprietors, planters, and plots, 1662-1729
By: L.H. Roper.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Landowners -- South Carolina -- Political activity -- History -- 17th century; Landowners -- South Carolina -- Political activity -- History -- 18th century; South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; South Carolina -- Politics and government -- To 1775; South Carolina -- Race relations; South Carolina -- Relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Relations -- South Carolina; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 18th century
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.