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Shaftesbury's Atlantis, Andrew Agha

Theses and Dissertations

This research posits that seventeenth century natural philosophy as purported by the Royal Society of London had a major impact on the way the First Earl of Shaftesbury directed the settlement of the English colony Carolina. When Carolina was first settled in 1670, the colonists were ordered by Shaftesbury and his Lords Proprietors of Carolina cohort to test experimental exotic crops like cotton, sugarcane, grapes, olive trees, and indigo, but since those crops did not produce exportable surpluses, they have been labeled as failures. Instead, this study recognizes those failures as integral components to the scientific process of experimentation. That …

Waccamaw River Project, Lynn Harris

Publications

This seven page document is one of several in the unpublished 'Occasional Maritime Reseach Papers' series written by Lynn Harris for use by SCIAA.

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Limerick - Old And In The Way: Archaeological Investigations At Limerick Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina, William B. Lees

Anthropological Studies

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