Carolina 2: A rude rabble

The story of Carolina’s second settlement attempt was the type of failure we’ve frequently discussed, but it was also a failure for a new era.  English proprietors got distracted, severe supply shortages emerged, and conflict with indigenous tribes ultimately caused the colony to collapse.  But, colonists knew what to do, they forcefully made their feelings Read more about Carolina 2: A rude rabble[…]

Carolina 1: Cape Fear

Carolina was a colony for a new era.  The Jacobean settlements of Virginia, Bermuda and Plymouth had been tiny, struggling outposts in a very New World.  The colonies formed under Charles I (the rest of New England, Barbados, Maryland and others) had been defined by the political and religious turbulence of his reign.  Now, a Read more about Carolina 1: Cape Fear[…]