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A history of North Carolina in the proprietary era, 1629-1729, Lindley S. Butler

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

A history of North Carolina in the proprietary era, 1629-1729

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Lindley S. Butler

"In this book, Lindley S. Butler traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. In the wake of the English Civil Wars in the mid-seventeenth century, King Charles II granted charters to eight Lords Proprietors to establish civil structures, levy duties and taxes, and develop a vast tract of land along the southeastern Atlantic coast. Butler argues that unlike the New England theocracies and Chesapeake plantocracy, the isolated colonial settlements of the Albemarle--the cradle of today's North Carolina--saw their power originate neither in the authority of the church nor in wealth extracted through slave labor, but rather in institutions that emphasized political, legal, and religious freedom for white male landholders"--, Provided by publisher

Aliens in a Strange Land -- The Carolana Propriety -- Carolina: Founding a Colony -- Clarendon County: Puritans and Barbadians on the Cape Fear -- Albemarle County: The Cradle of North Carolina -- Unrest, Upheaval, and Rebellion: Testing the Limits of Freedom -- Life in the Tidewater: Family and Society -- Making a Living: Planters, Traders, and Merchants -- A Dissenter's Colony: Quakers and Baptists -- From North and East of Cape Fear to North Carolina -- A New Century: John Lawson's North Carolina -- The Church Establishment and the Cary Rebellion -- The Tuscarora War -- A Pirate Haven: The Bahamas and the Carolina Coast -- The End of an Era -- Epilogue: Toward a New State