Southern colonies

Plantations

• Huge like small villages
• Center near river or stream was planters hosue
• Many of the workers were slaves
• Stables, workshop, , fields by planters house
• Long hours

Small farms

• Common
• In backcountry
• One or two servants or slaves per house
• Made cash crops

Family life

• Most were home-schooled and hired teachers
• Kids taught how to ride horses and hunt
• Back-country familes lived far away from schools and towns
• Older boys help father in plantation
• Helped family at early age

slavery

• 1600s slave time and hard work
• More plantation= more slaves
• Seperated from family and not treated good
• Laborers or servants
• Got whipped and the overseers had harsh laws

African American culture

• Believed in Christianity
• Overtime they created a new culture
• Made a "family" to survive their hard slave life
• Created new language called Gullah
• Played music and sang in the fields