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The Grand Model - Subject to Change
After Bacon’s Rebellion, a certain kind of Virginian gave up on the Chesapeake and looked south — to a coast the advertisements called empty, warm, and waiting. It was none of those things. It was the contested ground between the English colonies and Spanish Florida, where the French had already been massacred and the Spanish had held Saint Augustine since before Jamestown existed. This is the opening of a new season: the story of Carolina, sold over coffee on a London lane and planted as a wedge against an empire.
The English failed on this coast, and failed again — a Barbadian settlement…
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