They became the colony that was the king of rice just like the Chesapeake with tobacco. In fact, the annual rice exports was 400,000 pounds in 1700 and by 1740 became 43 million. The Carolina’s workforce came from a majority of slaves instead of indentured servants unlike the Chesapeake. Their slaves made out about twenty-five percent of their population. The Carolians tried to turn the table on the Native Americans by saying that enslavement was a good thing. They claimed that it spared captives their life and gave them a taste of of Christian civilization. One thing the Carolinians did was trade Indian captives for African slaves, which meant that they believed African slaves were more efficient like the Chesapeake and New England. Of course the more rice that was imported, the more slaves that were imported. At first, slave owners didn’t know how to efficiently use their slaves. However, once they found out the proper way, money and wealth
They became the colony that was the king of rice just like the Chesapeake with tobacco. In fact, the annual rice exports was 400,000 pounds in 1700 and by 1740 became 43 million. The Carolina’s workforce came from a majority of slaves instead of indentured servants unlike the Chesapeake. Their slaves made out about twenty-five percent of their population. The Carolians tried to turn the table on the Native Americans by saying that enslavement was a good thing. They claimed that it spared captives their life and gave them a taste of of Christian civilization. One thing the Carolinians did was trade Indian captives for African slaves, which meant that they believed African slaves were more efficient like the Chesapeake and New England. Of course the more rice that was imported, the more slaves that were imported. At first, slave owners didn’t know how to efficiently use their slaves. However, once they found out the proper way, money and wealth