The History Of Slavery In The South Carolina Lowcountry

Download or read book The History of Slavery in the South Carolina Lowcountry written by Douglas W. Bostick and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the early colonists to the Carolina colony were sugar cane planters from the West Indies and Bermuda. Their slave plantation economy was duplicated in the Carolina Lowcountry. West Africans already has the necessary skills and experience to cultivate rice, one of the great cash crops of the coastal region and thosands of Africans were forcibly brought to South Carolina as white planters needed a large labor force to operate their plantations. This important study presents the history of slavery in the South Carolina Lowcountry. It unveils the brutality and inhumanity of this system, exposing some of the myths of slavery and challenges the conventional understanding of how the system worked. Join historian Doug Bostick as he presents this story and its impact on the culture of the Lowcountry.