Basket Teacher at Penn School with Class | History Of SC Slide Collection

The first basket teacher at the Penn School worked to revive and perpetuate the African basket making skills among the children of the Sea Islands. The baskets made had a wide range of utilitarian purposes, from fanning rice to blow away the chaff, to carrying goods to market or storing them within the home.

Courtesy of the South Carolina Library.

Standards

• This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the geographic and human factors that contributed to the development of South Carolina’s economic system. This indicator was also written to encourage inquiry into South Carolina’s distinct social and economic system as influenced by British Barbados.
  • 8.1.CE Analyze the factors that contributed to the development of South Carolina’s economic system and the subsequent impacts on different populations within the colony.