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The Edge of Empire - Debatable Land
A generation after the Yamasee War nearly destroyed it, South Carolina has become something new on the American mainland: the first colony where the enslaved outnumber the free two to one — a Caribbean-style slave society grown rich on rice and living in permanent dread of its own people. And sixty miles south sits the one thing that can crack it open: Spanish Florida, where the King of Spain has promised freedom to any man who escapes an English plantation and takes up arms for the Spanish crown. This is the world James Oglethorpe sailed into in 1733, when he climbed a bluff above the…
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