Captive Passage - Departure
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Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas

Captive Passage
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A View of Charlestown the Capital of South Carolina in North America, 1767
Rice and indigo produced tremendous profits for plantation owners in South Carolina. Rice cultivation was particularly labor intensive, so the demand for African slave labor remained high. Cotton also became increasingly important to South Carolina with Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793.
Charles Pierre Canot after Thomas Mellish
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A View of Charlestown the Capital of South Carolina in North America

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