1. Life in the South
Chapter 7 Lesson 2
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2. Objectives
Describe how slavery influenced daily life in the Southern Colonies.
Identify ways in which enslaved Africans dealt with the hardships of their lives.
Describe what government was like in the Southern Colonies.
Explain the role that religion played in Southern colonists’ lives.

3. Vocabulary PLANTER – the plantation owner
OVERSEER – person hired to watch over the enslaved people as they worked

4. Treatment of Slaves Legal in all colonies
Children born to slaves were also slaves
Many families broke apart
Treatment depended on planter
Many beaten & abused
Hard to escape (but they tried)
Not allowed to speak out against slavery

5. Resisting Slavery Broke tools Pretended to be sick Worked slowly
NOTE: Punishment if caught was harsh

6. Dealing with Slavery Kept culture alive Told stories
Sang songs about Africa
Late 1700’s many found Christian religion a source of strength

7. Plantation System Rich planters = larger plantations = more slaves
Small villages: workshops that made nails, bricks, barrels, etc
Overseers hired – lived by fields
Slave homes far from planter’s home
Some slaves kept small gardens
Planters worked as judges or in government
Hired teachers to educate their children in home
Slaves could not learn to read or write (many did so in secret)

8. Life on Small Farms Most Colonists worked & lived on small farms
Former indentured servants owned small farms
Didn’t really become rich
Most did not use Slave labor
If they did have slaves, they worked along side them in fields
Farms far apart, so Church was a big event
Travel for hours to reach church

9. Free Africans – Black Seminoles
Free Africans would buy their family
Many who ran away escaped to Spanish Florida
Seminole Tribe – gave food & shelter
Many dressed like Seminole & learned language
Became known as Black Seminoles

10. Fort Muse (moh-SAY) Located in Spanish Florida
1738 – 1st settlement in North America for free Africans
Land on Manhatten was only a community and had to pay yearly for freedom
Were free to practice African customs

11. The Southern Ecomony
Chapter 7 Lesson 3
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12. Objectives
Understand how geography affected the economy of the Southern Colonies
Identify the major industries in the Southern Colonies

13. Vocabulary INDIGO – blue dye made from indigo plant
BROKER – a person who is paid to buy and sell for another person
INTERDEPENDENCE – depending on one another for economic resources

14. CASH CROPS Charles Town – Port in South Carolina
Plantations – items produced shipped to England & West Indies

15. CLIMATE Tobacco  Maryland, Virginia, & North Carolina
Rice  South Carolina & Georgia
SC – Rice is called Carolina GOLD
Indigo  Grew on drier land of SC & GA
Used in cloth making
Eliza Lucas Pinckney experimented with the plant
By 1740 – Cash crop of South Carolina

16. Economic Growth Planters needed merchants for goods & services
Traders & Merchants needed Plantations for crops & raw material
INTERDEPENDENCE

17. EXPORTING GOODS Planters used a BROKER to sell crops
Brokers to goods to market to sell, then bought good for planter
Most successful plantations near rivers & ports
Norfolk, VA & Savannah, GA became large cities (along Atlantic)
Baltimore, Maryland – grain & tobacco
Demand caused Baltimore to be major shipbuilding center in Southern colonies

18. Other Industries Farming #1 Forests – Wilmington, NC
Shipping center for forest goods
Built saw mills
Naval Stores

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