African Passages, Lowcountry Adaptations
Overview
Atlantic World Context
- Slavery before the Trans-Atlantic Trade
- European Christianity and Slavery
- Freedom, Slavery, and Race in the New World
- New World Racism
- Plantations and the Trans-Atlantic Trade
- New World Labor Systems: American Indians
- New World Labor Systems: European Indentured Servants
- New World Labor Systems: African Slavery
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
- African Participation and Resistance to the Trade
- The Middle Passage
- Conclusion
Establishing Slavery in the Lowcountry
- North American Context
- Contrasting Beginnings of Slavery in North America
- English North America: Slave Societies vs. Societies with Slaves
- Regional Labor Experiences: Sugar and Tobacco
- Rice in the Lowcountry
- Early Carolina Settlement: Barbados Influence
- Barbadians in Carolina
- American Indian Slavery in Carolina
- Africans in Carolina
- Conclusion
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About the Exhibit
An online exhibition series about the history of slavery, plantations, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the Atlantic World to Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. Exhibitions include: Atlantic World Context and Establishing Slavery in the Carolina Lowcountry. Published 2013.
Credits
Humanities Council SC, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, and the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World