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Beyond Barbados: The Carolina Connection

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.

Beyond Barbados: The Carolina Connection

56m 46s

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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    Beyond Barbados: The Carolina Connection

    56m 46s

    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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