English planters from Bermuda had established themselves…
1684 CE to 1695 CE
Settlers have build rice plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry, east of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line.
Settlers come from all over Europe.
Plantation labor is done by enslaved Africans, who will form the majority of the population by 1720.
Another cash crop is the Indigo plant, a plant source of blue dye, developed by Eliza Lucas.
The transformation of Carolina from a colony with slaves to a slave colony, and later a slave society, begins when slaveowners from Barbados become the dominant force in Carolina politics during the 1680s.
Barbados evolves into a slave colony with a majority slave population during this period.
The Grand Model is informally modified by the Barbadians, who take the titles of nobility, but replace Ashley Cooper’s enlightened aristocracy with a self-serving oligarchy.
The new plantation elite exercises little regard for balanced government, class reciprocity, or humane treatment of the servant and slave classes.
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