The Grand Model and Frontier Reality

• Published in: The Ashley Cooper Plan p. 99
• Main Author: Wilson, Thomas D
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: The University of North Carolina Press 01.03.2016; University of North Carolina Press
• Subjects: 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; Africa; Agricultural geography; Agricultural land; Agricultural sciences; Agriculture; Anthony Ashley Cooper; Atlantic Triangle Trade; Barbados; Baronies; Behavioral sciences; Biological sciences; Businesspeople; city planning; Colonies; Economic disciplines; Economics; Elites; Employment; Enlightenment; Entrepreneurs; Government; Government officials; Governors; Human geography; Human societies; John Locke; Labor economics; Metropolitan areas; Nobility; Occupations; Plantations; Political geography; Political History; Political science; Proprietors; Slave ownership; Slavery; Slaves; Social classes; social hierarchy; Social organization; Social sciences; Social stratification; Social structures; Sociology; Towns; Upper class
• ISBN: 9781469628905; 1469628902
• DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628905.003.0004

Anthony Ashley Cooper, or Shaftesbury, as he is better known to history, lived to see the implementation of his plan for the Province of Carolina. However, estranged from the king and distracted by politics, he was increasingly kept from being as deeply involved in the project as he might have preferred. By 1682, twelve years after the founding of Carolina, his political situation had become so precarious that he fled to Holland, where he died in exile. A few months later, when the Rye House Plot was discovered, John Locke also went into exile. The political distraction and eventual departure