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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
No trading with the Indians
Land limits on ownership
To help people in debt
Southern similarities
Plantations
Slaves
Land type Slaves
Cash crops
Plantations
Large Southern farm
Located in clearing along waterway
Far from each other
Own small schools
Owner was called a planter
Slaves
Field slaves
House slaves
No control over own life
Children began work at age 8
Music, dance, & stories
Coastal Plains
Navigable rivers
Fertile land & swamps
Tidewater
Forests of pine & hardwood
Easy to get crops to market
Cash Crops
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
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
CreditsPlantation 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]