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 black Rice and Indigo production
Charleston, South Carolina
Georgia Experiment to reform criminals 1732 = James Oglethorpe started colony 1732 - 1738 = Banned slavery and rum
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 slave population 4 for every 1 white