Beyond Barbados

Sometimes the history of a place begins elsewhere and the colony of South Carolina actually began somewhere else, almost two thousand miles across the sea.

The Carolina Connection

Sometimes the history of a place begins elsewhere and the colony of South Carolina actually began somewhere else, almost two thousand miles across the sea. The settlement of Charles Towne that would grow into the colony of South Carolina, owes its origins and success to a tiny island in the West Indies that most of us know nothing about. Yet, over 7 million Americans can trace their roots directly to this Caribbean paradise.

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 Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories 1
Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories
Episode 1

Video

Grades: 6 8 9 Higher Education

In The Beginning Most students today understand that the Carolinas were colonized by the English who had come to the Charleston area by way of Caribbean trade routes, primarily Barbados. The story of...
 Beyond Barbados: Sweet Success | Carolina Stories 2
Beyond Barbados: Sweet Success | Carolina Stories
Episode 2

Video

Grades: 6 8 9 10 11 Higher Education

Sweet Success Dutch Sephardic Jewish colonists moved from Brazil to Barbados to escape the religious persecution of the Spanish Inquisition. These Sephardic Jews brought with them the knowledge to...
 Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories 3
Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories
Episode 3

Video

Grades: 4 6 8 9 10

The Barbados Adventurers With the success of the sugarcane crop, Barbados quickly became the wealthiest colony in the New World, and the most densely populated place on the planet. Successful...
 Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories 4
Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories
Episode 4

Video

Grades: 4 6 8 9 10 Higher Education

Colony Of A Colony Most of the colonists who settled in Carolina were wealthy English planters, with names such as Middleton, Drayton, Colleton, and Yeamans. The vast wealth accrued in Carolina was...
 Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories 5
Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories
Episode 5

Video

Grades: 4 6 8 9 10 Higher Education

A Cultural Hearth The success of Barbados, Carolina, America, the New World for that matter is coterminous with slavery. The labor, the technology, the ingenuity, and the culture that supported this...
 Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories 6
Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories
Episode 6

Video

Grades: 4 8 Higher Education

From Whence They Came Gullah is the blending of all the cultures that came together during that horrible time in human history called the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The connection between Barbados and...
Beyond Barbados Glossary
Beyond Barbados Glossary

Document

Grades: 4 6 8 9 10

Part 1: In the Beginning ( CLICK FOR VIDEO ) Amalgam – A mixture or blend Amerindians – A member of the indigenous peoples of the Americas Barbados – An island country in the Lesser Antilles of the...
Beyond Barbados Part 2: Sweet Success Lesson Plan
Beyond Barbados Part 2: Sweet Success Lesson Plan

Lesson

Grades: 6, 8

Beyond Barbados Part 2- Sweet Success video segment focuses on Europeans establishing Barbados as a colony. There is an emphasis on identifying how the Europeans sought for a cash crop, sugar cane, to...

Beyond Barbados Part 5: A Cultural Hearth Lesson Plan
Beyond Barbados Part 5: A Cultural Hearth Lesson Plan

Lesson

Grades: 4, 6, 8, 9, 10

Beyond Barbados Part 5- A Cultural Hearth video segment focuses on the rebellions that took place in Barbados and the false “Emancipation” that was presented to enslaved Africans after the rebellions...

Part 5: A Cultural Hearth
Part 5: A Cultural Hearth

Lesson

Grades: 4, 6, 8, 9, 10

Historians refer to Barbados as the cultural hearth of the Americas. This cultural hearth resulted in a cultural transference. As demographics changed and power shifted, so did perceptions of “place”...

Part 6: From Whence They Came
Part 6: From Whence They Came

Lesson

Grades: 4, 6, 8

Look around Charleston, the Barbados-Carolina connection is ever present. How “place”, past and present, changed and molded the connection is explored through various aspects of culture. The mixture...