Southern Colonies

Plantations & small farms

• Plantations were very big in the South
• People needed more workforce, so they hired slaves.
• The workers grew things like cash crops & tobacco.
• Plantations had big houses and many acres of farm.

Family LIfe

• Children in wealthy homes had an easy life.
• Their parents hired tutors to teach them.
• They learned how to read and write
• Boys spent their free-time outside.
• Girls spent their free time sewing and singing.

Family Life

• Children in the back country had a harder time.
• Families lived far away from schools.
• Kids could only learn how to read/write if their parents knew.
• Kids started helping out around the house at a young age.
• This is how they learned how to plow, hunt, sew, & cook.

SOuthern SLavery

Life under slavery

• In the 1600's servants did the work on plantations. 
• As the plantations grew the more workers were needed.
• People started using Africans as slaves.
• More and more africans came & plantitions gre and grew.

African american Culture

• The slaves were treated roughly.
• The slaves made close friends with neighbors
• Many slaves were Christians.
• Many sang spirituals, religious folk songs.
• They also played music and danced!

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