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Southern Colonies

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

SOUTHERN COLONIES

VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, CAROLINAS AND GEORGIA

VIRGINIA

  • 1607
  • Came searching for gold
  • Plantation
  • House of Burgesses
  • Legislature
Photo by Marion Doss

MARYLAND

  • 1632
  • Lord Baltimore
  • 1649
  • Refuge
  • Plantation
Photo by nixam

CAROLINAS

  • England, Spain and France
  • 1663
  • Good farmland and harbors
  • Charlestown
  • 1729
Photo by e_monk

GEORGIA

  • 1732
  • James Oglethorpe
  • Debtor
  • 1733
  • Plantations
Photo by sunsurfr

LIFE INTHE SOUTH

CASH CROPS, CITIES, PLANTATIONS,FAMILY AND SLAVERY
Photo by Rubber Dragon

AGRICULTURE

  • Cash crops:
  • Plantations and small farms
  • VA and Maryland:
  • North Carolina:
  • South Carolina and Georgia:
Photo by Tonalscape♫

PLANTATIONS, SMALL FARMS

  • Like small villages
  • Planter's house
  • Laborers
  • Small farms
  • Family life
Photo by de Paula FJ

CHARLES TOWN

  • Port
  • Biggest city in south
  • Population:
  • 1783
  • Exports
Photo by shinealight

SLAVERY

  • 1600-indentured
  • 1750- slaves
  • Enslaved Africans
  • Overseer
  • Harsh conditions

ENSLAVED AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE

  • Created community
  • Religion
  • Storytelling
  • Music
  • New language: Gullah