https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb By Piper Holt en-us 2017-09-21 18:36:55 UTC 2017-09-22 18:58:38 UTC hello@padlet.com pholt9333 https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/189902298 The people of Barbados grew tobacco, cotton, ginger,and indigo. Barbados was the perfect climate for sugar cane so the people of England began moving down here to start farming to make more money.]]> 2017-09-21 18:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/189902298 pholt9333 https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/189902399 At first planters used indentured servants and prisoners (mostly from Ireland). Before slavery was introduced, the island had the largest white population of any other island in the West Indies. ]]> 2017-09-21 18:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/189902399 pholt9333 https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/189902427 Wealthy planters controlled the islands economy , society and government. Only people who owned land could vote and hold political office in Barbados. Historians refer this as a "plantocracy"]]> 2017-09-21 18:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/189902427 pholt9333 https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/189902554 By the 1660's the small island had become overcrowded. As a result many left the island to seek their fortunes elsewhere. South Carolina became the destination for some.

]]> 2017-09-21 18:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/189902554 pholt9333 https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/189902691 By 1720 there were nearly 20,000 people living in South Carolina. Immigrants came from all around Germany,France,Scotland etc. Many colonists cam from Barbados because they were immune to the diseases that killed new colonists from Europe.]]> 2017-09-21 18:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/189902691 pholt9333 https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/190255431 TO control the slave population governement leaders passed a very strict slave code.The law was supposed to protect slaves from bad owners and owners from unruly slaves.]]> 2017-09-22 18:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/pholt9333/q7i0bmh3x3jb/wish/190255431