Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729 - Hardcover

by L. Roper (Author)

Written from a transatlantic perspective and based largely on primary sources, Conceiving Carolina provides the first systematic treatment of the colonization of South Carolina in over a century. It argues that the political culture that developed in the colony amounted to an extension of the political life in early modern England. Provincial politics, in turn, shaped social developments, notably the emergence of a slave society. Thus, the book calls into question the notion of the inherent distinction and modernity of colonial British America.

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Roper's subject is compelling, given the cast of characters and events that made proprietary South Carolina what it was. Roper's original take on the formative period of South Carolina's distinctive history will catch the scholar's notice and raise an eyebrow or two, but all who pore over Conceiving Carolina" will be treated to a fascinating story that is as instructive as it is well told."
--Warren M. Billings, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of History, University of New Orleans

Author Biography

L.H. ROPER is an Associate Professor and Chair at the State University of New York at New Paltz, USA.