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The Carolinas were known as the Province of Carolina during America's early colonial period, from 1663 to 1712. Prior to that, the land was considered part of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, from 1609 to 1663. The province was named Carolina to honor King Charles I of England. Carolina is taken from the Latin word for "Charles", Carolus.
The code was initially developed in Barbados in 1661, then Jamaica in 1684, before being adopted in Carolina in 1695 as the Carolina slave codes. [9] The Carolina slave codes would subsequently be adopted in Georgia in 1770, and Florida would adopt the Georgia code soon after becoming a territory of the United States in 1821.
Sayle arrived in Carolina aboard a Bermuda sloop with a number of Bermudian families to found the town of Charlestown. In early 1670 the Lords Proprietors founded a sturdier new settlement named Charles Town (present day Charleston) when they sent 150 colonists to the province, landing them on the south bank of the Ashley River, South Carolina ...
The National Democratic Movement had been founded in 1995 by a former Labour Party chairman, Bruce Golding, [112] after a dispute over the leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party. [ 113 ] The 1997 election was mainly free of violence [ 114 ] as compared to previous elections, [ 112 ] although it began with an incident where rival motorcades from ...
So much land was devoted to sugar that most foods had to be imported from New England. The poorer whites who were moved off the island went to the English Leeward Islands, or especially to Jamaica. In 1670, the Province of South Carolina was founded, when some of the surplus
South Carolina: A History, (1998) the standard scholarly history; Edgar, Walter, ed. The South Carolina Encyclopedia, University of South Carolina Press, (2006), ISBN 1-57003-598-9, the most comprehensive scholarly guide; Rogers Jr., George C. and C. James Taylor. A South Carolina Chronology, 1497-1992 2nd Ed. (1994) Wallace, David Duncan.
The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. Jamaica became a British colony from 1707 and a Crown colony in 1866. The Colony was primarily used for sugarcane production, and experienced many slave rebellions over the course of British rule ...
The Spanish later founded settlements on Martinica (1502); Puerto Rico (1508); Jamaica (1509); Cuba (1511); and Trinidad (1530), and the small 'pearl islands' of Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuelan coast because of their valuable pearl beds, which were worked extensively between 1508 and 1530. [24] [25]