2.2.2 - SQ2 Primary Sources

Compelling Questions:

Was colonization a good thing? For whom?

Supporting Question 2:

Why did the English colonists settle in the Carolinas?

Primary Sources

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The First Voyage to Roanoke (pp.11-12) Links to an external site. M. Arthur Barlowe (1584)
A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country (p.79) Links to an external site. John Lawson (1709)
Memorial from inhabitants of Switzerland concerning their proposed settlement in Carolina (Vol 4 p. 18) Links to an external site. No Author (1735)
Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony. The Account by Ralph Lane (pp. 22-23) Links to an external site. Ralph Lane (1586)
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: of the Commodities and of the Nature and Manners of the Naturall Inhabitants (purposes and context pp.5-6 and scan the list of "commodities" through p. 22) Links to an external site. Thomas Hariot (1590)

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