The Grand Model - Ungovernable

American Political History · Apr 20, 2022 · 17m

In 1690 a man stepped off a ship in Charles Town and made himself governor of Carolina by overthrowing the governor — and the strangest part was that he was one of the colony’s own proprietors. This is the story of how the most carefully designed society in colonial America became one of the most ungovernable: the Grand Model the colonists refused to accept, the Barbadian faction called the Goose Creek men who deposed governor after governor, and the fifty-year war between the men who owned Carolina and the men who lived in it. It runs from a banished governor and a usurping proprietor to the…