1. The Southern Colonies:
Plantations and Slavery

2. The Plantation Economy
Characteristics of Plantation
Almost year round growing season
Cash crops
Rice – tobacco – indigo
Labor intensive
Near waterways – easy to transport crops
Self-sufficient = few large cities

5. The Turn to Slavery Changes in labor 1660s Indentured servants
not permanent
Fewer coming to South
Middle colonies more attractive
Native Americans – not a good source
Died of European diseases – easily escape
Brought in enslaved Africans – 40% of pop

6. Plantations Expand Slavery allows plantations to grow
Drain swamps - new land for crops
Rice
Labor intensive – requires skill
Slaves from West Africa – rice region
Indigo
Eliza Lucas introduced it South Carolina
Plant gives a blue dye

9. The Planter Class Economics & Political Power
More slaves working = produce more crops
Planter class becomes wealthy
Small landowners cannot compete
Sell land & move west
Planter Class gain political & economic power

10. Life Under Slavery Conditions & Treatment Supervised by an overseer
Work 15 hours a day
Whipped for wrong doings
Lived small one-room cabins
Sometimes had a garden

11. Life Under Slavery Conditions & Treatment Unique culture develops
Music – dance – stories - spirituals
African – American culture
Combination of Anglo & African culture
Christianity
Helps slaves endure

18. Resistance to Slavery Ways of resisting
Work slow – damage goods – purposely do things wrong
Rebellion
Stono Rebellion – 1730
Slaves capture weapons
Kill white planters
March to Spanish Florida
Caught and executed

19. Resistance to Slavery Result of Stono Rebellion Slave codes
Forbidden to leave plantation w/out a pass
Slaves cannot gather in large groups
Illegal to teach slaves to read & write