WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Cotton had already become a major cash crop for SC and it was clear that slavery was more important than ever.
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Most people in the south began building and working in the factories, so slavery began to die out.
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Slavery immediately went up because gold was discovered in SC and the slaves were needed to dig for the gold.
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Many felt that slavery would die along with the decline of rice and indigo since there was no longer a cash crop in SC.
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Detailed explanation-1: -As the demand for rice grew, so did the demand for enslaved Africans. The plantation owners were willing to pay higher prices for slaves from this area, and Africans from the Rice Coast were almost certainly the largest group of slaves imported into South Carolina and Georgia during the 18th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1492 and 1820, approximately ten to fifteen million Africans were forcibly brought to the New World, while only about two million white Europeans had migrated. Thanks to its English-Caribbean colonial roots, South Carolina employed many more African slaves than did North Carolina.
Detailed explanation-3: -They came to work the rice, sugar, indigo, coffee, tobacco, and cotton plantations of the British, Portuguese, and Spanish colonies. These slaves were bought at a premium to work on a South Carolina rice plantation because they brought with them specific knowledge of rice production from West Africa.
Detailed explanation-4: -By 1708, African slaves composed a majority of the population in the colony; blacks composed the majority of the population in the state into the 20th century. Planters used slave labor to support cultivation and processing of rice and indigo as commodity crops.