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Sugar & Rice: Southern Colonies & the Caribbean

Sugar & Rice: Southern Colonies & the Caribbean. Sugar Plantation in the Caribbean. The Carolinas. Many residents came from Barbados Charleston, South Carolina 1720 = 2/3 population of South Carolina were African or African American Rice and Indigo production. Charleston, South Carolina.

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Sugar & Rice: Southern Colonies & the Caribbean

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  1. Sugar & Rice: Southern Colonies & the Caribbean Sugar Plantation in the Caribbean

  2. The Carolinas • Many residents came from Barbados • Charleston, South Carolina • 1720 = 2/3 population of South Carolina were African or African American • Rice and Indigo production

  3. Charleston, South Carolina

  4. Georgia • Experiment to reform criminals • 1732 = James Oglethorpe started colony • 1732 - 1738 = Banned slavery and rum

  5. Slavery & the Caribbean • Mid-1600s = 44,000 English lived in Caribbean • Barbados & Jamaica = Key sugar producing islands • Sugar in England used for food, medicine, & to display wealth • Absentee owners • 1713 = Barbados population ratio: 4 slaves to every 1 white settler

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