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.
Guiding Question: What did Africans bring with them to America?
Question 1:
Why did South
Carolina’s colonial economy depend on slaves?
Question 2:
South Carolina first used indentured servants, then
Native American slaves, then
African slaves.
Why?
Question 3:
When African slaves came to
South Carolina, they brought their culture with them.
What, exactly, is
Gullah?
Proficient
What crop was called Carolina Gold? Why?
Where (what parts of South Carolina) could grow this crop? Why could it only be grown there?
Since rice could only be grown near the coast, where did most wealthy plantation owners live? (Be specific)
What are indentured servants?
Why do you think plantation owners quit using indentured servitude?
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What is Gullah?
Where is the Gullah/Geechie corridor?
When did Charleston start heavily importing slaves?
Why is Gullah unique to the Sea Islands off the Coast of South Carolina and Georgia?
Advanced
Carolina Rice originally came from
Madagascar. Since Madagascar is an island off the coast of Africa, which groups of people were considered experts at the process of growing rice?
Exemplary
What is the process of growing rice?
Is it easy?
How long does it take?
Which group of people had experience growing rice?
Why did plantation owners start using
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Native American slaves?
Why do you think plantation owners quit using Native American Slaves?
(3 reasons)
What does the Gullah language sound like?
Where could you go to listen to a Gullah
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What does Gullah music sound like?
What does Gullah food taste like?
What is the Middle Passage?
Provide a map.
Provide at least one primary source
(painting, journal entry, etc…).
What would it have been like to travel the
Middle Passage?
Why did plantation owners prefer using
African slaves? (3)
What does Gullah art look like?
What is a popular Gullah craft (that can only be found in the Charleston area)?
What cultures are combined together to create Gullah?
(It is more than just African culture)

Question 4:
As early as 1700, white South
Carolinians began worrying that there were too many slaves.
Why would they do that?
Question 5:
Were all of the
Africans living in
Carolina at this time slaves?
Sourcing
What was the population of South Carolina at this time?
Where is the Stono River?
What was the Stono Rebellion?
When did it happen?
Who was part of it?
What is the story?
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As a result of the Stono Rebellion, the
Slave Codes were created. This is sometimes called the Negro Act of 1740.
What did these codes say about
Slave gatherings
Reading and writing
Carrying guns
Clothing
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Why did most slave owners ignore the
Slave Codes?
Why were slave owners fined/punished if they were cruel to their slaves?
How much did it cost to purchase a slave?
How much money is that today?
Citations were given for SOME pictures and information.
Wikipedia and/or Google Images were used for the project.
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What does manumit mean?
If slaves were so valuable, why would some people manumit their slaves?
Citations were given for MOST pictures and information.
All sources were credible.
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If you were a slave and had purchased your freedom, what was required of you?
Only 4% of the freed blacks lived in the
South. Why?
Where were most freed blacks likely to move to (besides the north) and why?
Citations were given for ALL pictures and information.
All sources were credible.
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8.1.5: Explain how South Carolinians used their natural, human, and political resources uniquely to gain economic prosperity, including settlement by and trade with the people of Barbados, rice and indigo planting, and the practice of mercantilism.
Guiding Question: How did people make money in colonial Carolina?
Question 1:
Besides
Carolina Gold, what other natural resources did
South
Carolina profit from?
Question 2:
Who is Eliza
Lucas
Pinckney?
Question 3:
What is
Mercantilism?
Sourcing
Proficient
What could deer be used for?
In the beginning, Carolinians traded Native
Americans to get deer skins and furs.
What did they trade for?
Why did that trading relationship end?
Who is Eliza Lucas Pinckney?
Where was she from?
Who was her family?
Why did she get control of her father’s plantation? How old was she?
What is a mercantile system?
Why would a “mother country” enforce mercantilism?
Who is the “mother country” of the colonies?
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Citations were given for SOME pictures and information.
Wikipedia and/or Google Images were used for the project.
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Advanced
What other natural resources were abundant in South Carolina?
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What could they be used for?
What is “pitch and tar?”
Who would want to purchase these natural resources? Why?
If Eliza Lucas Pinckney was not the first person to PLANT indigo, then what did she do?
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Who did Eliza Lucas Pinckney share her discoveries with?
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What does “lessen dependence on foreign trade” mean?
How did Mercantilism lessen dependence on foreign trade for England?
Citations were given for MOST pictures and information.
All sources were credible.
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Exemplary
Why do you think South Carolina had a close trading relationship with Barbados?
Why do you think that Eliza Lucas Pinckney is in the South Carolina state standards?
Why was indigo so important to South
Carolina?
Rice and indigo were on the Enumerated List.
Products on this list could only be sold to
England. Why do you think England wanted control over Carolina Gold and Indigo?
Citations were given for ALL pictures and information.
All sources were credible.
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