1. Freeborn Englishmen Heir to Greek and Enlightenment ideas of Liberty
John Winthrop (MA Gov): Natural liberty = evil, Moral Liberty = Good
Thomas Hooker (Puritan Minister): “When each man hath liberty to follow his own imagination, all prejudice the public good”
John Locke: “Liberty means having a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power”
Property (Life – Liberty – Estate)

2. Freeborn Englishmen in Carolina
Political Liberty:
Right to participate in public (50+ acres to vote, 500 to be elected)
Civil liberty:
Protection of one’s person and property (laws, courts, juries)
Personal freedom of conscience and movement
Religious liberty:
Right to worship as you choose (tough for Catholics)

3. English Bill of Rights
Individual
Community

4. Sourcing: Rights
Natural Rights
Community Rights

5. Settling the Colony
Lords Proprietors were granted a charter for a colony they named Carolina (after the Latin name for King Charles II – Carolinus)
Charter gave extraordinary powers to the Lords Proprietors
Declare war and make peace, raise an army, sentence people to death, create towns, collect taxes, and oversee trade.

6. Settling the Colony pt. 2
Lords Proprietors never set foot in the colony
First two attempts failed by groups from Massachusetts and Barbados near Cape Fear (North Carolina)
Captain William Hilton explored near Port Royal area (hence Hilton Head Island)

7. Settling the Colony pt. 3
Lord Ashley launches a new attempt to settle Carolina
Three ships – The Albemarle, the Port Royal, and the Carolina leave Britain for Barbados
Albemarle sinks (replaced by The Three Brothers), Port Royal ran aground near Bermuda
The Three Brothers ends up in Virginia

8. Carolina makes it!
Carolina stops in Port Royal area before being encouraged by natives to settle where the Ashley and Cooper Rivers merge.
Settle along the Ashley River on a spot called Albemarle Point
Charles Towne is created
The Three Brothers finally arrives after being attacked by the Spanish

9. Albemarle Point
Offers great protection (on a bluff, surrounded by a wooden palisade)
Growth forces it to move to the peninsula and an area called Oyster Pointe (the current location of Charlestown) in 1680
Streets were laid out in a grid (like NYC)

10. South Carolina Government
Proprietary Regime
Fundamental Constitution was the model used to create the laws and government of the South Carolina Colony.
The Lords Proprietors chose representatives called deputies to rule for them
The Eight Deputies served on the Grand Council with five elected representatives
The Grand council combined with 15 elected representatives of the people formed the colonial parliament
The Grand Council will become simply the Council and the Parliament will become the Commons House of Assembly

11. Headright System System for giving out land
Quitrents (Annual Rent) would be paid on land
Person could be rewarded acres
For themselves and each family member, indentured servant, or slave brought to colony
Encouraged many Barbadians to immigrate to Carolina and bring their slaves

12. South Carolina: A History
Walter Edgar
Ph.D. from U of S.C.
40yrs as Professor of Southern History
Wrote South Carolina: A History and Partisans and Redcoats

13. Goose Creek Men
Compare the historical accounts of the conflict between the Proprietors, Dissenters, and Goose Creek Men.
What are the similarities and differences between the two texts?
Which historical account is better? And why?
What is the difference between the two texts? (Think about the authors purpose and intention)
South Carolina: A History pg. 84 – 96 / Textbook 43 – 44
Partner up to read, separate papers to answer.

14. Pirates of Carolina
Compare the historical accounts of Piracy in the Carolinas
Why did people become pirates? What strategies would they employ to evade capture and capture vessels?
How did pirates organize and govern themselves?
Who was Blackbeard and why is he legendary?
Why is Stede Bonnett an unorthodox pirate?
Who were two of the most famous women pirates? Why were they successful?
Piracy was tolerated and sometimes encouraged in Carolina, why?
How was piracy finally reigned in and diminished in the Carolinas?

15. Historiography
who writes history, with what agenda in mind, and towards what ends?
how accurate can a historian ever hope to be, analyzing past events from the vantage point of the historian's present?
does the historian's own perspective, impacted as it undoubtedly is by gender, age, national and ideological affiliation, etc., contribute to an "agenda" that the historian's work is playing into, unwittingly or consciously?
what about the types of sources, both primary and secondary, an historian chooses to base his or her work upon? Do they too contribute to the above-mentioned "agenda"?
does the very selection of sources (and, by extension, the decision to exclude certain other sources) prejudice the outcome of the historian's work in certain ways? et cetera...

16. Yamasee War
According to the reviews of The Yamasee War by William Ramsey provide the following:
Causes -
Effects -

17. Revolution of 1719
Causes
Effects