The West Indies and the Southern colonies | AP US History | Khan Academy

Plantation agriculture, and slave labor, united the British colonies in the West Indies and the southern part of the eastern seaboard. In this video, Kim Kutz Elliott discusses the sugar islands of the Caribbean and how their reliance on enslaved Africans for labor defined plantation society throughout the British colonies.

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[budjohn]

i enjoyed your use of words as you referred to the african people as enslave people which is the condition of the people. Nobody is born into biological classification called slave!

[ycartyahoo]

Reviewing history is only for the strong....

[chissstardestroyer]

Kind of makes you wonder why they were so emphatic about holding onto the Eastern Seaboard of the modern-day United States if the financial value of those areas was not that high at all.

[seniorscouse]

When the british got florida and new orleans an louisana after 1763 the slave trade boomed

[Shadow-Grape]

Thanks I’m trying to check out my race

[GNGaming]

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[chissstardestroyer]

In regard to Maryland's Act of Toleration; here's the problem: there are some Jews who actually *do* accept Christ Jesus... and He was Himself a Jew.

[MichaelH]

This is a great topic but the need to push Africa as the only source of forced labor seems a bit agenda-driven. Before anyone from Africa arrived, there were Irish, Scottish, English forced to work in the same conditions as any other slave. Native Americans were sent in large numbers as slaves to these islands. The inhumanity of those turning a profit by treating human beings as property was hardly reserved for one group during this period of history. Africans that bought their freedom, or were initially indentured servants that fulfilled their obligation of service went on to own land and slaves, both in the Caribbean and in the Southern colonies. The abusers and the suffering were hardly the sole experiences of one people. The revolt in the mid 17th century was instigated by both Whites and Blacks being kept as property.