The Carolinas were granted to eight politicians who had been favorites of the King of England. The colony quickly became a plantation colony, but they chose to leave the declining profits of tobacco and look at other crops to grow. They looked into raising livestock, which was relatively different from the past colonies, and they cultivated rice at \u201cover 60% of the total exports from Carolina as measured by value.\u201d They also took a major part in the slave trade as they took in so many slaves that the colonist felt threatened by the chance of a slave revolt. This was helpful as they looked to stay away from the Chesapeake\u2019s problem of too much work for few people.<\/p>\n

The Carolina colonists were also smart about how they took care of any types of attacks on their people. They had a regular pattern of using other bodies before taking the risks of hurting themselves. The chapter speaks of how slaves were used to kill the Spanish when the colony had problems with attackers from Florida and slaves were rewarded if they killed some of the adversaries. They also used the Indians with the \u201cgun trade.\u201d In this trade the Carolina colonists used the Indian\u2019s numbers and knowledge of the land to find other natives and bring them to back as slaves. Taylor even adds that \u201ccolonists paid far more for a slave than for deerskins\u201d which influenced the natives to take the weapons they were provided with and bring back their own kind in order to please the colonists.<\/p>\n

The chapter also briefly goes into Georgia and how the Carolinas used that area to their advantage also. As stated in a classmates post (http:\/\/sites.davidson.edu\/his141\/the-carolinas-and-the-purpose-of-georgia\/) Georgia was mainly a border state to keep distance from the Spanish. Georgia also made it less likely for runaway slaves to make it to the Spaniards, who took runaway slaves in, before being caught by the colonists. Georgia denied the slave system itself but took no part in keeping others from slavery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Carolinas were granted to eight politicians who had been favorites of the King of England. The colony quickly became a plantation colony, but they chose to leave the declining profits of tobacco and look at other crops to grow. They looked into raising livestock, which was relatively different from the past colonies, and they … <\/p>\n

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