Enlightenment · North America · Politics
1663
Carolina Charter
March 24, 1663
Charles II granted eight loyal supporters a charter for a proprietary colony south of Virginia stretching in theory to the Pacific Ocean. The Lord Proprietors would invite settlers from Barbados, write a philosophical constitution with John Locke, and plant rice and indigo along with a slave society imported from the sugar islands.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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