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SC Slavery 8-1.4
Slavery Early SC
Question | Answer |
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Gullah | the language of Africans that developed in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia |
Rice | the colony’s first cash crop, the name “Carolina Gold” |
Staple Crop | a crop planted that makes a large profit |
Eliza Lucas Pinckney | learned to grow indigo and how to make blue dye from the plant |
Stono Rebellion | largest slave revolt in pre-revolutionary SC |
Cash Crop | crops grown for a proift (indigo, rice, cotton) |
Middle Passage | part of slave trade - trip across the Atlantic Ocean, slaves were packed on ships, brought to the Americas to be sold |
Labor Intensive | requiring many workers to cultivate the land |
Auction Block | Place where slaves were sold to Plantation Owners |
Slaves Codes | Laws that prohibited slaves from gathering without white supervision, learning to read and write, and carrying guns [the Negro Act of 1740] |
8 Lords Proprietors | Men who were given Land in SC by King Charles II as repayment for helping restore the throne |
Census | A count of the number of people physically living in an area. This is done every ten years in the United States |
Plantation Economy | Large tracks of land used to grow “Cash Crops” or “Staple Crops”. Slave Labor grew large amounts of Rice and Indigo that brought huge profits to the Plantation Owner. |
Barbados | Island in the Caribbean, slaves were first brought to South Carolina from here |
Proprietary Colony | huge tracts of land in the New World awarded to people as a reward from the British Crown |