Southern Colonies

Plantations and Small Farms

• Plantations were kind of like small villages.
• Plantations were set up like this:
• near a river, plantation's owner's house in the middle
• Horse stables, workshops, gardens, and fields surround the house
• Work people's or slave's house also surround center house

Family Life

• Children of wealthy families were taught by teachers 
• Boys spent free time outside riding horses and hunting
• Girls spent their free time learning how to sew and sing
• In the backcountry, parents taught kids to read and write

Southern Slavery

• The importance of it had changed over a period of time
• More and more slaves were brought during 1600s to 1700s
• planters didn't always use slaves, but as more came to be, they used more
• and more slaves

Life under slavery

• Weren't treated as human beings, but sold as "property"
• Often families were ripped apart, children seperated from parents
• Overseers would often punish and whip slaves to keep them working

African american culture

• They would form very close ties with each other, as if a family
• their source of strength, other than supporting each other, was religion
• They combined bible stories and musical traditions to make 
• powerful spirituals