Qualla: Province of Carolina https://qualla.com/province-of-carolina en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/p/province-of-carolina-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Province of Carolina https://qualla.com/province-of-carolina Province of Carolina: Introduction https://qualla.com/province-of-carolina/ Photo credit VoodooIsland, Public domain. On March 24, 1663, Charles II of England signed a charter that gave eight of his friends a strip of North America running from 36 degrees north all the way down to 31 degrees, and westward - in the casual geographic vagueness of the seventeenth century - from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The eight men were called the Lords Proprietors, and the land they received was called Carolina, after the king's executed father. None of them had ever seen the place. One of them, however - Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury - thought hard about how to govern it. He hired his secretary, a young philosopher named John Locke, to write the constitution.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/p/province-of-carolina-wp/dnnp-province-of-carolina-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Province of Carolina: A Reward for Loyalty https://qualla.com/province-of-carolina/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Charles II had spent his twenties as a king without a kingdom, wandering the courts of Europe while Oliver Cromwell ran England. When the monarchy was restored in 1660, the new king owed favors to the men who had stayed loyal. Three years later he paid one of them: a charter to e...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/p/province-of-carolina-wp/dnnp-province-of-carolina-a-reward-for-loyalty.mp3 0:06 2 full Province of Carolina: Locke's Constitution https://qualla.com/province-of-carolina/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 2.5. Anthony Ashley Cooper threw himself into Carolina more than any of the others. With his secretary John Locke - then thirty-seven, the future author of the Two Treatises of Government - he drafted the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina in 1669. The document is one of the strang...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/p/province-of-carolina-wp/dnnp-province-of-carolina-lockes-constitution.mp3 0:06 3 full Province of Carolina: Two Heads of One Body https://qualla.com/province-of-carolina/ Photo credit John Speed, Public domain. From the start, Carolina was really two settlements with little in common. In the north, around Albemarle Sound, drifters from the Virginia Colony had been quietly squatting since 1653, when emigrants pushed south from the Chowan and Roanoke rivers. The Lords Proprietors blessed ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/p/province-of-carolina-wp/dnnp-province-of-carolina-two-heads-of-one-body.mp3 0:06 4 full Province of Carolina: Splitting and Dying https://qualla.com/province-of-carolina/ Photo credit John Speed, Public domain. The proprietary system slowly broke down under the strain of distance, religious disputes, and warfare with the Tuscarora and Yamasee peoples in the 1710s. From 1708 to 1710 North Carolina had no recognized government at all, a vacuum that culminated in Cary's Rebellion. In 1719 ...

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