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Southern Colonies

Southern Colonies. Mrs. Ackerman MRCA 7-10-01. 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

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Southern Colonies

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  1. Southern Colonies Mrs. Ackerman MRCA 7-10-01

  2. Maryland • Lord Baltimore • Religious Freedom • Relied on Jamestown • Indentured Servants

  3. Carolinas • Charles Town • Albemarle Sound • Good harbors for trading • Distance splits the colony into North & South

  4. Georgia • James Oglethorpe • No slavery • No trading with the Indians • Land limits on ownership • To help people in debt

  5. Southern similarities • Plantations • Slaves • Land type Slaves • Cash crops

  6. Plantations • Large Southern farm • Located in clearing along waterway • Far from each other • Own small schools • Owner was called a planter

  7. Slaves • Field slaves • House slaves • No control over own life • Children began work at age 8 • Music, dance, & stories

  8. Coastal Plains • Navigable rivers • Fertile land & swamps • Tidewater • Forests of pine & hardwood • Easy to get crops to market

  9. Cash Crops • Tobacco • Rice • Indigo

  10. 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

  11. Credits • Plantation picture – Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society ,[Digital ID,e.g., nhnycwlad ado04004]http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html [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. [http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/snhtml/snvoices03.html][mesnp 111350][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-USF35-1326][July 17, 2001] • Southern Customs – Swenson, May.”Southern Customs and Superstitions.” September 17,1938.WPA Life History [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query][July 17,2001]

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