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John Lawson's A New Voyage To Carolina

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John Lawson, an English naturalist, came to Carolina in 1700 and traveled over a thousand miles, studying the natural environment and trading with Indians. His A New Voyage to Carolina offered a very favorable description of life in the colony. He vividly described the lives of free Carolina women and the numerous kinds of labor they performed.

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