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of Clarendon, Carteret and the Berkeleys refused to
recognize the claims of Landgrafs and manor chiefs.
It was the same kind of struggle that continued in
to vote in the Carolinas was limited to freeholders
as it had been limited in the tobacco country about
1670. Indigo and rice were coming to be staples which
sold at high prices in England, and the more fertile
stretches of land were a aquiring high fixed values. The
lords of manors seemed to have a chance of success,
and there was everywhere the promise of a profitable
social subordinaton.
However, the drastic rule in England caused 
the migration, after 1670, of men like Giles Bland
and the younger Nathaniel Bacon to the James River
country where they found increasing resistance to
the Berkeley authority. In a year or two the opposition was ominous, and in the spring of 1676 a violent
revolution broke. Four-fifths of the people lent support to Bacon and Bland when they forced the election
of a new House of Burgesses and repealed all the control
 
 
1. McGrady, Edward:
The History of South Carolina: Propriety Government
gives all the facts necessary for the understanding of the social evolution there.