Video
Grades
- 3
- 4
- 8
Episode
9
Circle of Inheritance looks at the burgeoning trade industry in early South Carolina.
Colonial Economy
1607 - 1775. South Carolina was able to prosper during the colonial period by trade with the people of Barbados, rice and indigo planting and the practice of mercantilism.
PHOTO CREDIT: "Unloading Rice Barges, South Carolina, 1870s", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed July 22, 2021, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1164
Video
Grades
- 4
- 8
Episode
10
Circle of Inheritance delves deeper into the rice and slave industries in the early South.