Caribbean Project: The Barbados-South Carolina Connection - interesting

[malaise]

http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2014/02/15/caribbean-project-the-barbados-south-carolina-connection/
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In December, I stopped at a Barnes and Noble in Greenville when I was in South Carolina for the League of the South’s Lindsey Graham protest. After looking through the local book section, I bought a book by Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole called The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina.

Here’s an excerpt from “The Beginning”:

“South Carolina developed as the only English colony in North America where slavery had been entrenched from the very beginning. Although the earlier colonists of Virginia had first experimented with slavery early in the seventeenth century, it was the hard- and high-living English planters on the Caribbean island of Barbados who perfected the oppressive system of chattel slavery in the 1830s. Their system became the model for the Carolina settlement, and sons of Barbadian planter families – seeking new lands and new staple crops – became a significant part of the original Charles Town settlement …

Most of the Lords Proprietors already had strong Caribbean connections. Ashley Cooper, in addition to a Caribbean plantation, also held a financial interest in the Royal African Company, the major English financial concern involved in the transatlantic slave trade. Moreover some of South Carolina’s most prominent families, including the Draytons and the Middletons, can trace their lineage directly to Barbadian settlers. The first Africans in the colony had been slaves in Barbados. Some historians refer to South Carolina as “the colony of a colony” because of the strong Barbadian influence. Barbadian architectural influence is also found in Charleston, especially the single houses – a single room wide with their downstairs and upstairs piazzas, or porches, to catch the breezes.” (Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole, The Palmetto State: The Makings of Modern South Carolina, pp.3-4)

We’ve discussed this at length.

Just as Yankees settled New Hampshire (and the rest of New England) from their base in Massachusetts, South Carolina was founded by “culture bearing” settlers spreading out from their “cultural hearth” in Barbados who had already spread their culture across the Leeward Islands and Jamaica.

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I seem to remember that Willie Lynch was one of the 'Caribbean plantation owners' - a vile racist and terrorist.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Exploitation, Greed and murder are the alloy of most of the Wealth of the world, with few exceptions

Then and Now .

[Recursion]

2. Two vertices of the Triangle Trade (nt)

[unc70]

3. The 1830 date stands out as suspect

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I haven't read and can't speak about the book overall, but the 1830 date seems questionable. The rest of the excerpt seem "off" but I don't have enough context to determine why. By 1830, the New England-run slave trade was winding down, though it did not end until the 1850s.

Jack Bass has the credentials as a historian, so he probably is correct, but 1830 seems about 50 years late given other events.

[malaise]

5. Not when you factor in the great Barbados hurricane

of 1830. Hurricanes in the Windward and Leeward islands sent the French to Trinidad and hurricanes affected both the American and Haitian Revolutions.have come to the conclusion that both historians and political scientists have not identified the influence of natural disasters on major political events.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. It should read '1630s'; Bass's book has it right, and that website copied it wrong

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VjYMCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT16&lpg=PT16&dq=%22barbados+who+perfected+the+oppressive+system%22&source=bl&ots=CRuqZI_5Nj&sig=q-nTh8pusZ5Ww4gB-6cidkYWRDY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAWoVChMI_6TStseXyAIVwdsaCh0hygkq#v=onepage&q=%22barbados%20who%20perfected%20the%20oppressive%20system%22&f=false

The Ashley Cooper it refers to is one of the "a"s in the 'Cabal" ministry of Charles II in the 1660s and 1670s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal_Ministry

[unc70]

12. That makes a lot more sense

Thank you. I was having a lot of trouble with 1830 but hadn't researched it yet. While I had family in Charleston by about 1700, I know a lot more about NC history than SC history.

[malaise]

14. Thanks for that

[mnhtnbb]

4. We went to Barbados last February and guess what is a major attraction?

The George Washington house.

George Washington, later to become the 1st President of the United States of America, visited Barbados in 1751 and spent about two months.

Barbados was the only country he ever visited outside colonial America.

Some interesting information at the link about Washington's deep involvement as a slave owner.



http://www.barbados.org/george_washington.htm#.VgfpECsYFi0

[malaise]

6. Yes indeed - I've never visited the property but know about it

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. British Imperialism has never ended, just the appearance of it has shifted.

[malaise]

8. Well now it's American imperialism but many of the border fights today

are the result of British imperialism. Watch the Guyana - Venezuela dispute -this time on behalf of Exxon-Mobil and the so called oil find in the Essequibo (disputed since 1811)

[KoKo]

9. K&R!

[madokie]

10. Nice guy he was not, racist and vile thug he was

"This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. The term “lynching" is derived from his last name."Aug 20, 2012
Willie Lynch
'The Making of a Slave' - YouTube

[malaise]

13. Sadly they have perfected his tactics - divide and rule

Vile is too good for him.