ed rather miserably. Attempts at animal husbandry and planting were disastrous and required a "nucleus" colony to be sent out from London, England to Carolina. Upon their arrival members of this colony drafted a constitution that extended "religious toleration to slaves" and further stated that every freeman "of Carolina [should] have absolute power" over his slaves. (18-19) In the early years of the colony, nearly one-third of the newcomers were black and three out of four slaves were male (25), a statistic that sets up an interesting demographic considering the dissemination of power.
By 1671, it was necessary to look beyond subsistence production toward a staple that would provide a lucrative future for the colony while at the same time utilizing the growing slave population. Livestock was the initial form of production in the colony and, since slaves understood the practice of open grazing, much of the care of lives
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