A series of fictional short stories set in colonial North and South Carolina in the 1700s when both were called Carolina. The vignettes center around the first explorers of Carolina led by Arthur Barlowe, some of the earliest settlers including a feisty widow, Louise Plummer, a slave couple, Addam and Eve whose adventures and desire for freedom rivals the movie "12 Years a Slave," the adventures of Blackbeard the pirate who sailed out of Carolina, and a courageous Cherokee Indian chief, Tsongus, The book takes you through Indian wars, slave rebellions, the triumph of ordinary people struggling to survive under almost impossible conditions.
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