In this week\u2019s reading on the Chesapeake Colonies and the Carolinas, Taylor eloquently portrays a colonial image of agriculture and slavery. These colonies or rather areas at the time were founded right when slavery was beginning to take flight and become a prominent institution in the Southern part of the Atlantic seaboard. The Chesapeake colonies had a cash crop, which was the very profitable tobacco while the Carolinas found a cash crop of their own in rice and indigo. These very profitable cash crops in both colonies took many extensive methods for growing and extracting the final product for sale and thus proved to be very laborious activities.
\nFirst and foremost, I took a strong liking to the fact that Taylor talked about the rice market in the Carolinas with such detail as he did. Being a North Carolinian myself I never knew to what extent rice had on Carolina\u2019s economic development and prosperity. As I mentioned before both of these chapters seemed to portray an image of colonial hardships or rather the grunt and grind of hard work. I feel the way Taylor emphasized this idea was with his choice of titles for each section. Taylor\u2019s creative titles caught my attention upon reading the chapters and this interest was further expanded when it was introduced in our class discussion. An interesting point that Sarah Funderburg mentions in her post on September 16, was that the colonists looked to pit the Indians and African slaves against one another.
\nThis idea of using the Indians to hunt the runaway slaves for bounty that Sarah brings up was part of the colonists search for security for they feared what could happen to them if the slaves and Indians formed an alliance against them. One thing Taylor does well is his use of detail with American history, rather than rewriting the typical formalities or the black and white of history; Taylor includes aspects such as this in order to better inform the reader. Therefore, I feel that his spin on the titles, most notably the ones in the chapter on the Carolinas such as Raiders and Terror, put some emphasis on the actions of the Indians. This emphasis on the Indians takes away from the stereotypical historical depiction of the white man coming over and wiping out everything in his path. These titles and details seem to put more blame on the Indians for some of the violence that took place in these colonies during this time.
\nTaylor provides us with an account of American history and specifically of the Chesapeake colonies and the Carolinas that is different from most accounts. Taylor touches on areas that many historians tend to go into short detail about or simply neglect altogether; and these chapters are another example of Taylor giving careful attention to the events that took place in the Chesapeake colonies and Carolinas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s reading on the Chesapeake Colonies and the Carolinas, Taylor eloquently portrays a colonial image of agriculture and slavery. These colonies or rather areas at the time were founded right when slavery was beginning to take flight and become a prominent institution in the Southern part of the Atlantic seaboard. The Chesapeake colonies … <\/p>\n

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