Life in Southern colonies was very different than life in the Middle or England colonies.The Southern colonies is consisted of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The Southern colonies had an agriculture economy. The soil in the southern colonies was great for all year-round growing season. This was great for plantation crops such as rice and tobacco. Rice and tobacco were very valuable at the time and were grown as cash crops. Planters used waterways to transport goods. Waterways made it easier for ships to tie up at plantation docks. The plantation economy was getting bigger and bigger each day this caused planters a rough time to find laborers to work for their plantations. This led planters to use enslaved Africans for labor. Slavery was big in the Southern Colonies! In 1665, less than 500 Africans had been brought into the colony. Africans and Europeans work in fields as indentured servants. In the 1660s, the labor systems were changing which caused indentured white servants to leave their plantations. Indentured white servants left because of the large land amounts in the Americas were available. The Bacon’s Rebellion made it so white servants could not be kept on plantations which made it politically dangerous for planters to even try to keep them there. This made landowners hard
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Slaves were watch under overseers who were men hired by planters to watch over slaves and to direct them into work. Slaves worked for 15 hours a day, they lived in small one room cabins with only sleeping cots, and ate a quarter bushel of corn and a pound of pork. Enslaved Africans kept many customs and beliefs from their homeland such as Islam or music. Most of enslaved Africans had a struggle to maintain their culture. The enslaved Africans fought against their enslavement. They would damage goods and carried out orders the wrong way on purpose. Sometimes when slaves became very angry/frustrated they would start a
Slaves were watch under overseers who were men hired by planters to watch over slaves and to direct them into work. Slaves worked for 15 hours a day, they lived in small one room cabins with only sleeping cots, and ate a quarter bushel of corn and a pound of pork. Enslaved Africans kept many customs and beliefs from their homeland such as Islam or music. Most of enslaved Africans had a struggle to maintain their culture. The enslaved Africans fought against their enslavement. They would damage goods and carried out orders the wrong way on purpose. Sometimes when slaves became very angry/frustrated they would start a