1. North Carolina a. “Rift raft” – poor misfits i. First North Carolina settlers were a mixture of poor families and runaway servants from Virginia and English Quakers, had no religion, similar to Rhode Island, hospitable, liked pirates, and dissenters (strong spirit) b. The Carolina proprietors envisioned a traditional European society; there the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669) legally established the Church of England and prescribed a manorial system, with a mass of serfs governed…
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