Southern Colonies

Mrs. Ackerman

MRCA

7-10-01

Maryland

Lord Baltimore

Religious Freedom

Relied on Jamestown

Indentured Servants

Carolinas

Charles Town

Albemarle Sound

Good harbors for trading

Distance splits the colony into North & South

Georgia

James Oglethorpe

No slavery

No trading with the Indians

Land limits on ownership

To help people in debt

Southern similarities

Plantations

Slaves

Land type Slaves

Cash crops

Plantations

Large Southern farm

Located in clearing along waterway

Far from each other

Own small schools

Owner was called a planter

Slaves

Field slaves

House slaves

No control over own life

Children began work at age 8

Music, dance, & stories

Coastal Plains

Navigable rivers

Fertile land & swamps

Tidewater

Forests of pine & hardwood

Easy to get crops to market

Cash Crops

Tobacco

Rice

Indigo

Southern Customs

STIFF NECK: Wrap a pair of underdrawers which have been worn more than two days around the neck. STOMACH ACHE: Swallow a tablespoonful of clean white sand. LEG CRAMPS: Before going to bed, place patient's shoes against the wall so that the heels do not touch the floor. Cure for WARTS: Take a chunk dried mud fallen from a hoof of a mule, and rub it on the wart. Spit on the under side of the chunk, and then place it on a gatepost

CreditsPlantation picture – Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society ,[Digital ID,e.g., nhnycwlad ado04004]http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html [July 17,2001}

Slave picture – Brannan Beverly W. “Sarah Grudger”.between 1936 and 1938.WPA Slave Narratives Project,North Carolina Narratives,Volume II, Part I. [http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/snhtml/snvoices03.html][mesnp 111350][July 17,2001]

Coastal plains – American Environmental Photographs Collections, [AEP ImageNumber, e.g., AEP-MIN737], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library.

Tobacco – Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USF35-1326][July 17, 2001]

Southern Customs – Swenson, May.”Southern Customs and Superstitions.” September 17,1938.WPA Life History [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query][July 17,2001]