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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