Carolina: John Locke's Utopia
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2021
- This video is about the Carolina colony, which was designed by John Locke for Lord Shaftesbury in the 1660s and 70s. (Eventually it was divided into North and South Carolina as well as Georgia.) Charles II awarded the Carolina Charter to eight Lords Proprietors, but only Shaftesbury took a serious interest in it. Inspired by James Harrington's Utopian "Commonwealth of Oceana", Locke and Shaftesbury founded a feudalistic commonwealth in the New World-- for others to settle. They themselves remained in England to plot against the Stuart monarchy.
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Well, unsurprisingly, this was fascinating. I had no idea that coffee houses were once called “penny universities”-that’s amazing. I now feel bound by honor and destiny to incorporate this fact into a poem or story somehow. It’s also interesting that there was a move from thinking of “human nature as a blank slate” to thinking of “the wilderness” as such: I didn't know that either. Well done!
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It's always a good day when Mrs. Brown gives us a new video. Thanks!
Thank you Max!
100% It will be my children's history class.
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Dammit Justine you've ruined coffee for me. Now I have to get drunk instead. All of the time. The King demands it.
Cool. Coffee houses are still more favoured by Whigs and pubs by royalists, I'd hazard a guess. ☺
Politics is so complex isn't it. All this rich history of learned men trying to figure things out. And on and on it goes.
That’s true, isn’t it… coffee shops are still full of Whigs.
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Sunday, 24 October 2021 - Eastern Standard Time (EST) UTC-4:00 DST
Time in North Carolina,
Fascinating history, I've always wondered why coffee houses were historically intellectual hubs. The voiceover was a bit slow and hesitant though, I think rehearsal might help with that.
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Quality content. Need a better mic, though. Subbed.
Justine, these are my direct ancestors - those who settled on the Carolina shores in a big mansion they called Ballachulish. My great aunt wrote a book about it.
Amazing!
From Whigs to Hipster Coffee Shops lol
Only through doing genealogical research, I've developed a rough idea regarding early North and South Carolina and through that, incentives for both Carolina's in developing the colonies, pulling heavily from Virginia with royal grants. First look to William Byrd and his party in negotiating through difficult terrain the boundaries between Virginia and North Carolina where he wrote his experiences in an uncensored diary.
People running from debt or those of poor means gathering up land against the developing border being impoverished with no church presence and the lack of understanding by William Byrd regarding the crop and livestock cycles seasonly and painting Carolinians as being lazy and similar to "bog trotters". Also that of illegal shipping in trade of goods getting around taxation on the rivers.
The drawing of prominent Tidewater, Virginia families with lucrative grants for adventurous sons to populate the Carolinian interior not just for productive outcomes but to offset and provide security against that of the developing influx of Scottish and German settlers that needed to be constrained by English control to keep the settlements in check. All of this is loose theory from doing genealogy and seeing certain patterns at the county levels where Virginian families were given large land grants and essentially pushed into high positions of local governance.
While there may have been ideals at play, the reality in populating the Carolinian colonies came more about from absorbing whatever would appear from a variety of inducements. Charlestown thrived as it has great port foundations but North Carolina having less than good ports beyond New Bern suffered as a colony, it's inhabitants driving cattle and other goods down into South Carolina and Georgia for trade.
Also corruption, the later Spanish Alarm which highlighted the degree of toothlessness of the local players and piracy...the ideals of the Carolina's was a distant vision against the backdrop of what unfolded.
Interesting. I suppose North Carolina is quite distinct from South Carolina culturally.
Very interesting video Mam.
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Why thank you