Standard 4.1.E

Beyond Barbados - South Carolina Map

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Map of South Carolina

Part 6: From Whence They Came

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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...

Part 5: A Cultural Hearth

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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 4: Colony of a Colony - Beyond Barbados: The Carolina Connection

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Power was a commodity in Barbados that easily transferred to Carolina. Cultural beliefs and practices influenced Carolina’s economy and helped shape the “place” that would become South Carolina.

Part 3: The Barbados Adventurers - Beyond Barbados: The Carolina Connection

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Barbados was one of the wealthiest colonies in the New World and one of the most densely populated areas on the planet. Barbados greatly changed from years of settlement and economic pursuits. “Place”...

Part 2: Sweet Success - Beyond Barbados: The Carolina Connection

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History never really happens in a vacuum. Barbados was an amalgam of many cultures, which was made even more complicated by the social control of those in power over those enslaved. The clash of...

A PBL That Explores Beyond Barbados: The Carolina Connection

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Sometimes, the history of a place begins elsewhere. It is a complex blending of cultures and place.The history of South Carolina is likewise complex, and it began somewhere else, in a place that many...

The French Huguenot Exodus | Hanover House

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The beginning is about the house’s original owner, Paul de St. Julien’s family, and their French Huguenot origins. They moved to Charleston, S.C. to escape religious and political persecution, when...

African American Contributions | Hanover House

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William Hiott and Patrick McMillan discuss the contributions made by African Americans. When Paul de St. Julien died in 1741, he owned forty-five slaves. Most of the profit which came from St. Julien...

African Americans in South Carolina: Gullah

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Read maps, use charts, and go to various sites to discover facts about the Gullah culture.