Antebellum South Carolina was a period considered to span from 1790 to the American Civil War in 1861. In 1786 the cotton gin was created, causing the industry of cotton increased its demand for labor due to the increase in the size of the crop on the plantations. Not only was the cotton industry in high demand, but so was the rice harvest, causing South Carolina to become a heavily slave-populated state. Images A and B both represent two periods of slavery during antebellum South Carolina. Image A shows an advertisement for a slave sale in Charles Town, South Carolina, on the Ashley River Ferry, while Image B shows an illustration of elderly servants caring for white and black children. Image A was taken before the start of the antebellum period in 1760, unlike Image B which was drawn towards the end of this period in South Carolina in 1863. The two images represent the change that occurred in the state of Carolina South regarding slavery. First, image A is an advertisement for slaves from the west coast of Africa. This ad was published in 1760, when slavery was very common in colonial America. South Carolina had one of the largest slave ports that saw thousands of slave owners and slaves pass through. This ad was placed in the South Carolina Gazette with the primary goal of attracting rice and cotton plantation owners. These slaves were imported from the "Windward and Rice Coast", which was the central Atlantic coast of Africa. This would have interested plantation owners, as the slaves of this area were familiar with growing and harvesting rice in conditions similar to those in lower South Carolina. These Africans who were brought as slaves... to the center of the paper... the ancient slave trade and slave life in the Americas: a visual documentation. http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/detailsKeyword.php?keyword=Domestic&recordCount=27&theRecord=11.Krebsbach, Suzanne. “The Great Charlestown Smallpox Epidemic of 1760.” The Historical Journal of South Carolina 97, no. 1 (1996): 30-37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27570134.Opala, Joseph. “Bance Island in Sierra Leone.” The Gullah: Rice, Slavery, and the Sierra Leone-American Connection. http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/03.htm.Walker, Barrington. "King Cotton." Lecture 12, Queen's University, Kingston, 12 February 2014. Walker, Barrington. "Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Era of the American Revolution." Lecture 10, Queen's University, Kingston, 3 February 2014. Unknown. “Antebellum Era Collection.” South Carolina Museum. http://www.scmuseum.org/collections/cultural_history/antebellum.aspx