HIS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Occaneechi, Social Order
28 Aug 2016
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The ocaneechee were a tribe in virginia who were allies with the virginia colony. In addition to their alliance with the virginia colony, they also served as a convenient buffer between the virginia colony and some of the scary and more powerful tribes, like the iroquois confederacy. Haiti was the major colony that the french had in the caribbean. It wasn"t until the 1730s that the sugar plantations that the french ran in the caribbean started to become profitable- the french had had a difficult time getting this operation to finally become productive. Sugar was also difficult to grow, further complicating france"s efforts to turn haiti into a productive and profitable colony. Unlike the british, the french didn"t have many resources to pour into the colonies (the. British actually borrowed money as well to pour into the new world, which caused problems for them later on)
