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Episode 58, Carolina in my mind.

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Last time, we turned back to the south for the first time since the early episodes.

We went over the history of early English and Spanish exploration into North America,

and briefly went over Roanoke colony before covering the

creation of the province of Carolana in 1628 by King Charles I of England.

Carolina was made up of the land south of Virginia, what had been known as Old Virginia, between 31 degrees

and 36 degrees latitude north. It was a province, but it was to be held by a sole proprietor,

Sir Robert Heath, the Attorney General. This was where we left things. Heath had a huge tract of land, and his first

issue would be finding people to settle that land. This was problematic. Carolina would suffer the

same problems as New York would later in the century. There was very little reason for people to go there.

If people wanted to travel to the south, to be farmers, then they would travel to Virginia,

by far the largest and most powerful colony. If they were Puritans escaping persecution, then they

would travel to New England. There was little reason for them to go anywhere else. This was why

he turned to another group, and to explain why he did, I want to turn to the West Wing.

Pop culture explains all.

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