History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0453 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Barbados Codes and a Black Majority
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The idea
By seventeen fifteen South Carolina had a Black majority because of the number of enslaved people in the colony.
In practice
The Carolinas passing slave laws based on the Barbados slave codes of the late sixteen hundreds.
Where people slip
Those laws reduced Africans to the status of property to be bought and sold as other commodities. Barbados exported a legal system, not only a crop.
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