The Barbados Model
●Barbados - An economic system & a type of government developed in the West Indies. ●Plantation System – An elite ruling class and a large slave population. –British colonists tested this in Barbados. –Early 1600s ●The British took this Barbados model & used in the American Colonies. –The British traded Native American slaves for African slaves, molasses, rum, and sugar to the Carolina colony. ●Slave Importation to colonies – 1690s –Reason – Plantation owners believed they needed more slaves to crop rice & indigo. –Eliza Lucas Pinckney –South Carolina's economy was on the rise. –Eliza Pinckney successfully managed the first plantation in 1738 in the Carolina Colony. ●She took over the first plantation after her father died. –She perfected the growing of the indigo plant. ●The blue dye that came from the indigo plant was very valuable. ●Eliza Lucas Pinckney invented a new way to grow indigo. ●All of South Carolina benefited from Pinckney's hard work with indigo. Lesson 7: South Carolina and the French – British Rivalry France & Britain were both rivals. Reasons for Rivalry: Mercantilism & Trading Military conflicts They both wanted to be more powerful than the other. The French were not allowed to trade in South Carolina. Reason – South Carolina was a British colony South Carolina was indirectly affected by “The French & Indian War.”
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