HIST 2061 Chapter : Evolution Of Slavery Cont
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Plantation expansion: tobacco demand, unlike in the caribbean, the switch to slave economy doesn"t really change the demographic. Minority of blacks: demographics= slave v. british populations, low country-south carolina, large rice plantations, very labor intensive. Literally flood fields to make it grow, harvesting takes a lot of time. # and kinds of slaves looks a lot like the caribbean. A lot of the colonist are actually transplants of barbados. No ambiguous status, always a slave with no rights: more africans arriving than white settlers. Quarter of the slaves are indian: 1732: georgia, king george gives a land grant to oglethorpe because he needs a border to spanish florida. Took on a lot of the same slave patterns that you see in south carolina, initially this was a refuge for white european workers, put a ban in 1732 because it was never supposed to be a slave state.
