Episode 216: Anglo-Spanish Hostility in Early South Carolina, 1670–1748

Rival claims to the land of South Carolina sparked hostility between England and Spain that shaped the first 78 years of the colony’s existence. The English considered Floridians to be jealous rivals, while the Spanish saw Carolinians as habitual trespassers. Spain held a better claim to the contested territory, but British colonists eventually won the land by force.