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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Lindley S., author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (471 pages)

Place of Publication:

2022.

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]

Summary:

This volume traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. Lindley Butler provides a comprehensive history of the proprietary era in North Carolina since the nineteenth century, offering a substantial and accessible reappraisal of this key historical period.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 26, 2023).

ISBN:

979-88-908545-2-0

979-88-908545-3-7

1-4696-6755-X

1-4696-6756-8

OCLC:

1303665989