Colonial Black Experience | Conversations on S.C. History - Episode 5

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History.

The Colonial Black Experience is discussed in six lessons:

1. Wealth of SC
2. Idea of Slavery
3. Cultivation of Rice
4. The Blending of Cultures
5. Language and How We Speak
6. West African Cultural Traditions.

Standards

• 4.1.CX Contextualize the experience of Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans in South Carolina.
• 4.1.CC Identify patterns of change and continuity in the development of economic systems in British North America.
• 4.1.E Analyze multiple perspectives on the economic, political, and social developments of British North America and South Carolina.
• 8.1.CO Compare the three British North American colonial regions economically, politically, socially, and in regard to labor development.
• This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how the three British colonial regions developed in terms of their culture, economies, geography, and labor. The indicator was also developed to encourage inquiry into the unique story of the development of South Carolina.
• 8.1.CE Analyze the factors that contributed to the development of South Carolina’s economic system and the subsequent impacts on different populations within the colony.
• This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the geographic and human factors that contributed to the development of South Carolina’s economic system. This indicator was also written to encourage inquiry into South Carolina’s distinct social and economic system as influenced by British Barbados.
• 8.1.P Summarize major events in the development of South Carolina which impacted the economic, political, and social structure of the colony.
• This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the development of South Carolina as a result of mercantilist policies, which ranged from the Navigation Acts to trade with Native Americans to the use of enslaved people as labor. This indicator was designed to promote inquiry into agricultural development, using the rice-growing knowledge of the enslaved West Africans.

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