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 black
Rice and Indigo production

3. Charleston,
South Carolina

4. Georgia Experiment to reform criminals
1732 = James Oglethorpe started colony
= 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 slave population 4 for every 1 white