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In his book, The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 (2020, University of SC Press), Dr. John Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina land grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. In his conversation with Walter Edgar, Navin tells of a cadre of men who rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression. Threatened by the Native Americans they ...

Published May 10, 2021 at 5:30 AM EDT Listen • 51:59 / NY Public Library A map of ye English Empire in ye continent of America : viz Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, New York, New Iarsey, New England, Pennsilvania In his book, The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 (2020, University of SC Press), Dr. John Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina land grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. In his conversation with Walte...

Rising home prices make affordable cities like Lima more attractive By Mackenzi Klemann - mklemann@limanews.com The pandemic has not stopped people from buying and selling real estate. LIMA — There may be a silver lining in the economic turmoil wrought by the pandemic for cities like Lima: The newfound mobility of a work-from-home class no longer tethered to the office has made these cities more attractive at a time when home prices are rising faster than wages in many parts of the U.S. and historically low interest rates have made borrowing more affordable. The first 11 months of 2020 saw...