1. Topic: Assessing the Southern Colonies Contribution to “American Freedoms”.

2. Virginian Democracy 1619: House of Burgesses Propertied men
Colonial self-government
King James I tries to limit this (Royal Colony in 1624)

3. Maryland (1634) Lord Baltimore The Catholic Colony
Degree of religious freedom
Economic: Tobacco Plantations
Influx of Protestant workers  tension
1649: Act of Toleration

4. The Carolinas (1670) Rice, sugar, Indian slaves
Slavery in the Carolinas (role of Barbados slave system)
Charleston port
North Carolina
Migrants from Va.
egalitarianism
Carolinas separated in 1712

5. Georgia (1733) James Oglethorpe “Debtor’s Colony”
Border between Spanish Florida and the Carolinas (A “Buffer” Colony)
“Salvation” of both debtors and Indians
Smallest population of all colonies

6. Conclusion
Southern Colonies
Contributions to
“American Freedoms”