I'm John Bachelor, continuing with Professor Daniel Rood.

His book is about the plantation system

over four or five hundred years here in the New World, the Western Hemisphere, in the shadow

of the great house, a history of the plantation in America. The crops he would chase are the ones

with the highest margins for sale in Europe. We started with sugar, never really

leave sugar, but we moved on then to rice and on the mainland, especially the Carolinas. It's labor

intensive and the transformation of all of indentured servants and Native American slaves with African origin slaves,

all comes together in the rice plantations of the Carolinas. But then tobacco, which is introduced

into North America by the Native Americans, I believe, becomes a very high-end crop for Europe. Now we make a transformation.

I learned from Patrick, from Daniel, that in 1770, the dominant export of the colonies was tobacco.

But by 1830, the dominant export was cotton.

Also brought in from outside America,

but it did very well in the colonies along the water,

and then the low country colonies did very well with cotton.

And cotton had proceeded. The cotton part of the south is where did very well with cotton. And cotton had proceeded.

The cotton part of the south is where rice used to be grown exclusively.

They learned a little bit about rotating crops too much.

But teaching the plantation owners how to maintain fields, how to maintain crops, how to take care of them,

and the house at the same time, were the enslaved people.

Patrick, you tell, Daniel, you tell a number of stories that are helpful.

One that I remember vividly is Betty, who wanted her freedom, but you tell the story

of managing the plantation,

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