Beyond Barbados-The Carolina Connection

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Beyond Barbados: The Carolina Connection.
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Beyond Barbados: The Carolina Connection
"Beyond Barbados: The Carolina Connection" traces the historic influence of the small island of Barbados on the wealth and success of a place 2,000 miles away: the Carolinas. Scholars examine the cultural exchange that impacted the development of language, food and architecture, and recount how the economic and governmental systems created, tested and proven by the West Indies sugar industry forged the prosperity and power of the Carolinas — chief among them the institution of slavery


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@DOGGFATHER96 , you corrected a poster about this story in a recent thread. You're familiar with the story but I thought you'd enjoy the doc.
 
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MAGARussiaLGBT Crunch said:
All of my mom's family is from the the Charleston area of SC, and I got family who live in Raleigh.

There is no connection btwn Barbados and the Carolinas.
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yes there is. my family is also from the Charleston, Summerville and West Ashley areas of SC and we have Bajan roots. My grandmother tells us this all the time about her father’s father coming to SC from Barbados.
 
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MAGARussiaLGBT Crunch said:
All of my mom's family is from the the Charleston area of SC, and I got family who live in Raleigh.

There is no connection btwn Barbados and the Carolinas.
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There is/was an early connection between the two but overall it's very tenuous.


Early white barbadian planters/slave owners set up shop in S Carolina

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these white barbadians along with their slaves were mainly of a quick pitstop residence before heading to the Carolinas

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this along with a change in style of slave importation are why the connections are tenuous



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because the barbados connection was in the early period of white barbadians + non-creolized africans from barbados (modern barbados doesn't have a real distinct culture, almost all of its popular culture is based on OUTSIDE, afro-new world populations)

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Modern South Carolina has a late(r) African input that came straight from Africa which is how the Sea Islands became/stayed so "African" that modern Barbados lacks

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im_sleep said:
That 31.6% is crazy considering it was mainly over a roughly 10 year period
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S Carolina was sourced in that late period by the 2nd to last slave ship to the USA



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Wanderer was the penultimate documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia on November 28, 1858. It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people. Clotilda, which transported 110 people from Dahomey in 1860, is the last known ship to bring enslaved people from Africa to the US.

Originally built in New York as a pleasure schooner, The Wanderer was purchased by Southern businessman Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar and an investment group, and used in a conspiracy to import kidnapped people illegally. The Atlantic slave trade had been prohibited under US law since 1808. An estimated 409 enslaved people survived the voyage from the Congo to Georgia. Reports of the smuggling outraged the North. The federal government prosecuted Lamar and other investors, the captain and crew in 1860, but failed to win a conviction.
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In his ship's log, Corrie noted arriving at Bengula (probably Benguela in present-day Angola) on October 4, 1858. Wanderer took on 487 slaves between the Congo and Benguela, which is located forty miles south of the Congo river.[10] After a six-week return voyage across the Atlantic, Wanderer arrived at Jekyll Island, Georgia, around sunset on November 28, 1858. The tally sheets and passenger records showed that 409 slaves survived the passage. They were landed at Jekyll Island, which was owned by John and Henry DuBignon, Jr., who conspired with Lamar.[11] These figures present a slightly higher mortality rate than the estimated average of 12 percent during the illegal trading era.[12] Hoping to evade arrest, Lamar had the slaves shipped to markets in Savannah and Augusta, Georgia; South Carolina and Florida.[8]

As the federal government investigated, news of the slave ship raised outrage in the North. Southerners pressed Congress to reopen the Atlantic trade. The federal government tried Lamar and his conspirators three times for piracy, but was unable to get a conviction. It failed to convince a jury of a connection between Lamar and the ship.[8]
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https://www.thecoli.com/threads/man...ou-heard-about-the-1858.769332/#post-37077235



Although the 407 Africans aboard were illegal cargo, a group of Southern planters, led by Charles Lamar of Savannah, Georgia, conspired to acquire the slaves. He and his cohorts hoped their actions would lead to a reopening of the slave trade and secession from the Union.[32] Many of the Wanderer slaves were put on barges and trains going to Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. About half were sent aboard the steamboat Augusta, which sailed up the Savannah River to a plantation owned by Charles Lamar’s cousin Thomas Lamar. From there, many were sent to work in northern Georgia and South Carolina, including in the Edgefield area.

In 1908 anthropologist Charles Montgomery interviewed seven of the Wanderer Africans living in the Edgefield County, Aiken County, and Augusta area: Tucker Henderson, Tom Johnson, Lucy Lanham, Ward Lee, Katie Noble, Romeo Thomas, and Uster Williams.[33] Based on Montgomery’s writings, Kikongo language scholars John Thornton and Linda Heywood assert that Tom Johnson, Lucy Lanham, Katie Noble, and Romeo Thomas came from the same area of Madimba in the valley of the Mbidizi River in the Kingdom of Kongo
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BEECH ISLAND — Fifty years after a federal law banning the importation of slaves took effect, a ship called the Wanderer brought a cargo of more than 400 Africans to Georgia’s Jekyll Island in 1858. Many of the captives were children, and they were traumatized, starving and sick.

Some ended up in this area after traveling up the Savannah River on a steamship. Their descendants still live in Edgefield and Aiken counties today.
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Remembering slave ship Wanderer
 
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