FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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South Carolina’s two main cash crops-rice and indigo-were very common in Barbados.
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They already had experience in dealing with the local Native American tribes in South Carolina.
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They adopted a plantation system similar to the one they had used in Barbados.
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They received special treatment from the King of England.
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Detailed explanation-1: -They particularly looked to Barbados to cultivate sugar for the booming European market, and to encourage a consumer base for their connections to the trans-Atlantic slave trade in West and Central Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -During this early period of the settlement, Barbados supplied the enslaved labor force – a practice that continued until the Carolina colonists determined rice would do for Carolina what sugar did for Barbados sometime around the early 1700s. Charleston, SC was a famous port city as was Bridgetown, Barbados.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: African slaves were brought and imported from Barbados to the Carolina colonies. When the Empire ran out of white indentured servants, they turned to slaves from Africa. The colonists used both the indentured servants and slaves to build the Carolinas.
Detailed explanation-4: -S.C. Encyclopedia | South Carolina’s origins are so closely tied to the British West Indian colony of Barbados that it has been called a “Colony of a Colony.” The historian Jack Greene has called Barbados the “culture hearth” of the southeastern, slavery-dominated plantation economy.
Detailed explanation-5: -With the early introduction of sugar cane, Barbados became one of the richest of England’s colonies in the world. The far eastern location of Barbados made the colony a major commercial centre for Trans-Atlantic trade especially with the British city of Bristol.