Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729 - Hardcoverby L. Roper (Author) Written from a transatlantic perspective and based largely on primary sources, Conceiving Carolina provides the first systematic treatment of the colonization of South Carolina in over a century. It argues that the political culture that developed in the colony amounted to an extension of the political life in early modern England. Provincial politics, in turn, shaped social developments, notably the emergence of a slave society.