HST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Charleston, South Carolina, Headright, Typhoid Fever
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This was a community started in 1841 with the brotherly and sisterly cooperation of about 20 intellectuals committed to the philosophy of transcendentalism. They prospered reasonably well until 1846, when they lost by fire a large new communal building shortly before its completion. The whole venture in "plain living and high thinking" then collapsed in debt. Life in these colonies was nasty, brutish, and short for the earliest settlers. A large number of the english migrants that came to these colonies in the seventeenth century came as indentured servants. Due to a high death rate and a shortage of women, the society in these colonies was unable to reproduce itself naturally until the last quarter of the seventeenth century. Despite its unhealthy climate, the area was immensely hospitable to tobacco cultivation. Both va and md employed the "headright system" to obtain more workers to cultivate tobacco.
