-16- trade. And there was even greater resentment in 1674 when the people learned that Lord Culpeper was to become a Virginia Lord Baltimore. Would the tobacco settlements definitely become a stratified and submissive social order (1)? During the same years, the great lords proprietors were trying to apply their Landgraf system in Carolina; but every report from pioneers on the Albemarle Sound and the Cape Fear River warned that no success was possible except upon the principle of homesteads for all, the rights of self-government and religious freedom. John Locke insisted that such concessions must be granted, and Clarendon, who denied all religious freedom in England, agreed that Quakers, and Baptists and New England Puritans might have all they asked if they would buy lands and pay quit rents in their new domain. The first Governor of the Charles Town settlement was a stern Puritan; and later a loyal Quaker occupied the same high station. For thirty years after the beginnings in the Albemarle region and on the peninsular between the Ashley and the Cooper rivers, the religious and political groups living on the lands 1. Hening: Statutes , II, 518 and 534 |