1. The Agricultural South

2. Agenda
1. Bell Ringer: How do the navigation acts limit the Colonies? (5) 2. Discussion, how do we categorize Andros in history? (15) 3. Lecture: The Agricultural South (15) 4. Slavery Group Primary Analysis (20) - Slavery video clip embedded 5. Test Overview HW: Work on study guide. Remember

3. The Plantation Economy
Cash crops of tobacco and rice were dominant in the South.
Plantations were common, instead of clusters of towns like in New England.
Self Sufficient, growing the products needed to survive.

4. Life in the South
Population is diverse, Germans settling in Maryland while Scots and Irish settled in western North Carolina.
Planters control the economy
Small farmers majority of population
Prosperity reigned in the South through the 1700s because of export crops.

6. The Evolution of Slavery
Planters moved towards African slaves instead of Natives/Indentured servitude
Natives died from disease often
Indentured servitude was temporary and inconsistent.
Triangle trade expanded the use of slavery from West Indies and Africa to the Colonies and the Caribbean.

7. African Traditions within Slavery
Ancestor stories and traditions were kept alive even though they were separated from families.
Ring dance endured even as the planters tried to eliminate tradition.
Gullah language develops in Georgia and South Carolina.
Many slaves in this region came from the same area of West Africa.

8. Resistance and Revolt Passive Resistance Open revolt
Claiming sickness, breaking tools, working as slowly as possible.
Open revolt
Stono Rebellion- 1739, several planter families were killed, the slaves planned on fleeing to Spanish controlled Florida
White militia surrounded the slaves, killed most of them in the fight.

9. Life on a slave ship