Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
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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...
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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...
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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”...
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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.
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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”...
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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...
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Most students today understand that the Carolinas were colonized by the English who had come to Charleston by way of the Caribbean trade routes, primarily Barbados. This module describes the...