Module 6, Reflection

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 https://www.scseagrant.org/carolinas-gold-coast-the-culture-of-rice-and-slavery/


 This article talks about the Southern States and how they wanted to established a feudal society in their land grant. It talks about how they kept huge landed estates for themselves, and, with the assistance of the English philosopher John Locke, drew up a plan, known as the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which would have given them the power of feudal lords. The scheme called for a three-tiered hereditary nobility consisting of proprietors, land graves, and caciques who would own forty percent of the colony's land and serve as a Council of Lords and recommend all laws to a parliament elected by small landowners. But like other feudal visions, this one failed. South Carolina's settlers rejected virtually all of this plan and immigrants refused to move to the region until it was replaced by a more democratic system of government. Emigrants from Barbados played a decisive role in South Carolina's early settlement in 1679 and 1680, and brought black slaves with them. Within a decade they had found a staple crop rice which they could raise with slave labor. The grain itself had probably come from West Africa and African slaves were already familiar with rice cultivation. The result was to transform South Carolina into the mainland society that bore the closest resemblance to the Caribbean. As early as 1708, slaves actually outnumbered whites and by 1730 there were twice as many slaves as whites in the colony. About a third of South Carolina's slaves during the early eighteenth century were Indians. Also how the rapid growth in the slave population raised the specter of slave revolt. In 1739, the Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in colonial America, took place about twenty miles from Charleston. Led by a slave named Jemmy, the rebels burned seven plantations and killed approximately 20 whites as they headed for refuge in Spanish Florida. Within a day, however, the Stono rebels were captured and killed by the white militia.



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  1. EssenceOctober 28, 2019 at 11:26 PM

    Hi I like how you shortened this module and made it simple and complex for your readers to understand and I like how you went more in depth about the colonization good job!

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  2. mfix2014November 12, 2019 at 6:25 PM

    I like how you took the vast information throughout this module and really shortened it up to make sense to the normal student. I find it disheartening that the British went through high and hell water to force people to be slaves. They took all the land for themselves and left none for anybody else. That is what created such hate in that society, and what causes hate today in other parts of the world. You really put nice deep thought into this post and I appreciate that. Nice job.

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  3. AleenaNovember 14, 2019 at 12:08 PM

    Hi Jaelan, I really liked how you were able to summarize the readings from this past week. It was really easy to follow along and it was easy to get to the point. The topic for this week was very interesting to me and from your perspective, it was also very interesting.

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  4. KaitlynNovember 17, 2019 at 7:55 PM

    Hey Jaelan, you blog entry was very put together and I really enjoyed it. I like how you really went into detail about the slaves ,South Carolina settlers, and other things it is very interesting.

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  5. JPattersonNovember 17, 2019 at 8:41 PM

    Hey Jaelan,
    I like how you were able to give a recap of what the tickles touched on. It was a great refresher especially since I can not remember everything. The lengths that people went to in order to make others feel inferior or have them become slaves shows a sign of ignorance.

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