The American Colonies The American Colonies Carolinas Carolinas

By Charles SomersBy Charles Somers

The gun tradeThe gun trade

Trading guns and Trading guns and ammunition to the ammunition to the nativesnatives

If no ammunition If no ammunition they would starvethey would starve

If they didn’t have If they didn’t have a gun a better a gun a better armed Indian armed Indian would sell them would sell them into slaveryinto slavery

Raiders Raiders

Westos from Erie Westos from Erie movement southmovement south

Cusabo as vassals in Cusabo as vassals in FloridaFlorida

Spanish not protectSpanish not protect Lost momentum as Lost momentum as

they used more and they used more and more ammunitionmore ammunition

Indian population to Indian population to low to fastlow to fast

Rice Rice

Too far north to Too far north to grow sugargrow sugar

Tobacco prices Tobacco prices fallingfalling

Low wet lands and Low wet lands and tropical climatetropical climate

Rice large prophetsRice large prophets Exotic cropExotic crop 130 acres 65 130 acres 65

laborers laborers

TerrorTerror

West Indian slave West Indian slave systemsystem

Slave rebellionSlave rebellion 20 slaves stole 20 slaves stole

guns and powderguns and powder Better trained and Better trained and

equipped militia equipped militia killed rebelskilled rebels

Heads on post Heads on post every mileevery mile