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Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories
Episode 5

Video

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
Episode 6

Video

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

Lesson

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
Part 5: A Cultural Hearth

Lesson

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”...