Southern Colonies Mrs. Ackerman MRCA

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

Credits Plantation picture – Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society,[Digital ID,e.g., nhnycwlad ado04004] [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. [ ][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-USF ][July 17, 2001] Southern Customs – Swenson, May.” Southern Customs and Superstitions.” September 17,1938.WPA Life History [ bin/query][July 17,2001]