When the Carolina colony was first being erected, the crown in England enforced salutary neglect, meaning that giving the colonists free reign with little authority would produce a more productive colony. However, after King George’s War of 1748, the British felt it necessary to reverse their original order. The British feared that the Carolina colonists […]
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Bradford’s Description of the Indians: A Changing Perspective?
Though the section we read from Bradford does not focus very much on his encounter with the native populations, we do see a marked difference in how he describes them in more hypothetical terms before their departure and how he describes his interaction with them. Walk us through this shift in opinion. How would you […]
