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4. Discuss the reasons plantations owners in South Carolina would want people from these regions in West Africa
5. Why were people from West Africa preferred to work on rice plantations over other people?
6. What rice variety originates from Asia?
7. What rice variety originates from Africa?
8. How many acres of land were converted into rice fields in South Carolina?
9. Describe how the swamp land was converted into rice fields. Use the maps of West Africa and South Carolina to compare the two and then answer the following questions. 10. What similarities in geography can you find between South Carolina and West Africa?
11. How did geography and climate played an important role in the development of the rice plantations in South Carolina? Why?
Explanation / Answer
4. The reasons why plantation owners in South Carolina would want people from regions in West Africa is the fact that; in 1691 the 4. South Carolina Assembly passed an act that allowed the colonists to pay their taxes in rice. Thus the growing rice became profitable. Thus the towns of Charleston and Georgetown in South Carolina became wealthy ports; importing slaves from West Africa and exporting rice to European countries; which paid a premium for the “Carolina Gold.”
5. People from West Africa preferred to work on rice plantations over other people as the fields in this area had to be carved out of tidal swamp lands where huge cypress and gum trees grew. The swamps over there were full of alligators, snakes, and disease-carrying mosquitoes and African slaves could overcome all these obstacles which others could not.
6. Rice variety that originated from Asia is; Oryza sativa
7. Rice variety originates from Africa is: oryza glaberrima