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indigo gave farmers in Georgia the first staple crops that allowed them to take their place in the swiftly growing system of commercial agri* culture. Thus three new developments?slavery, un? rest ricted land, and staple crops?-were the pillars that supported agricultural reorganization in royal Georgia. They were more than facts.
Such crops included grapes (for wine), rice, indigo, silk, and tobacco (WRIST). Shortly after the founding of Georgia, colonists created a 10-acre plot of land on the edge of the settlement known as the Trustees' Garden.
25 maj 2004 · While small farms dominated Georgia on the eve of the American Revolution (1775–83), much of the colony’s most profitable crops were produced by enslaved African laborers on expanding plantations.
19 lut 2003 · Sumac (Rhus glabra), a native North American plant with medicinal properties, was cultivated in the Trustee Garden by early settlers to the Georgia colony and sent to London, England. The garden was established in 1734 as an agricultural experiment station modeled after the physick and botanical gardens at Oxford and Chelsea in England.
Establishing the Georgia Colony, 1732-1750. In the 1730s, England founded the last of its colonies in North America. The project was the brain child of James Oglethorpe, a former army officer.
4 sty 2008 · An indigo plant (Indigofera suffruticosa) grows wild on Ossabaw Island. Indigo was cultivated by colonial Georgians, and along with rice, was a lucrative crop until cotton surpassed it in the early 1800s.
