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Chapter 4 lesson 3The Southern Colonies:Plantations and slavery
by: Madison
Main Idea-The Economy of the
Southern Colonies relied heavily on slave labor.The Southern Colonies
needed labor on farms to grow plantation crops like
tobacco.
Terms and Namesindigo
• Eliza Lucas• William Byrd 2nd• overseer• Stono Rebellion
The Plantation Economy Many different crops were grown in the
south. The biggest crop grown in the south was tobacco. They also grew rice and indigo. A lot of crops in the south were cash crops.
The south had a port city it was Charles Town, later known as Charlestown this city is
in South Carolina.
John Rolfe was a man thatintroduced tobacco as a cash crop.
The Turn to Slavery Slaves were usually African. There were fewer than 500
African slaves in Virginia. Along with African slaves there were whit servants. White servants
could not be kept permitly. European diseases killed many
Native Americans. African slaves made up 40 percent of
the southern population.
• These are early 20th century slaves.
Plantations Expand Slavery grow so much that
plantations were able to expand. They expanded in
South Carolina and Georgia. Enslaved people did a lot of
hard labor. Cultivation of rice was back breaking labor.
• Eliza Lucas introduced indigo as a successful plantation crop.
The Planter Class Slave labor allowed some planter wealthier. The Byrd
family was one of those planters that became
wealthier. The wealthier families formed an elite planter
class. They bought the most slaves. They grew more crops like indigo because they had
more slaves.
Life Under Slavery Slaves were watched over by overseers. Overseers are men hired by planters to watch over
direct the work of slaves. Slaves work about 15 hours at
the peak of the harvest season. Slaves would be
whipped if they were not doing their full share of work.
• This was on a plantation in 1936.
Resistance to Slavery Slaves sometimes fought
against their enslavement by working slowly, damaging
goods, and purposely carried out orders the wrong way.
Slaves got so angry at times that they rose up in the rebellion. A very famous rebellion was the Stono
Rebellion. Stono Rebellion started with about 20 slaves at
the Stono River in Charles Town.
By Madison Archer
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