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Carolina

A proprietary giant with two distant nuclei — Albemarle tobacco farms and Charleston rice and slaving.

Split into North and South Carolina in 1712 (royal colonies from 1729).

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Carolina — the shape you scrub through changes in 1655 · 1670.

Moments from the Chronicle

• 1670 Charles Town founded Carolina's southern nucleus rises on the Ashley River.
• 1680 Westo destroyed Carolina and its Savannah (Shawnee) allies annihilate the Westo; the Iroquois sack the Grand Village of the Illinois.
• 1711 Tuscarora War War ignites in eastern North Carolina; Spain evacuates the last Calusa to Cuba the same year.

Further reading

• Colonial South Carolina Robert M. Weir · 1983

  Covers the proprietary Carolina that split into North and South Carolina, from the Charleston nucleus.

• American Colonies Alan Taylor · 2001

  Carolina's rice-and-slaving low country within the broader colonial South (broad context).

• The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution Charles Woodmason (Richard J. Hooker, ed.) · 1953

  Primary-source journal of an Anglican itinerant minister in the Carolina backcountry (1766-68), illuminating the two-nucleus colony (Albemarle tobacco vs. Charleston rice/slaving) and backcountry conditions at the colony's end.

Sources

• Province of Carolina — Wikipedia