1. African Development in South Carolina Yasmin Dukes Aleceya Edwards
8-1.4 Explain the significance of enslaved and free Africans in the developing culture and economy of the South and South Carolina, including the growth of the slave trade and resulting population imbalance between African and European settlers; African contributions to agricultural development; and resistance to slavery, including the Stono Rebellion and subsequent laws to control slaves.

2. Facts About African Development
Carolina settlers from Barbados brought slaves
Forced through the “Middle Passage’’
Came through the port of Charleston
Sold on the auction block
Brought knowledge of cultivation (cattle and cultivating rice)
Used to harvest naval stores

3. Examples of African Culture
Language (Gullah)
Dance
Music
Woodcarving
Folk medicine
Basket weaving

4. Language
Gullah was a spoken language and shared culture of Africans, developed in the Sea Islands.
Mixture of spoken languages and created words.
Called Geechee in South Carolina and Georgia.

5. Music African rhythms heard in the call and response songs.
Slaves used these songs to communicate from plantations.
Banned by fearful whites after the rebellion.

6. Woodcarving and Basket Weaving

7. Stono Rebellion

8. Stono Rebellion-
A slave revolt near Charles Town, began when a small group of slaves, who wanted to escape to St. Augustine, Florida. Slaves broke into a store on the Stono River and two settlers were killed. Slaves used drums to summon more slaves. In the end, many slaves and settlers were killed.

9. The Negro Act of 1740
This prohibited slaves from gathering without white supervisions.
They couldn’t learn to read and write or carry guns.
Also called the Slave Codes.