SOUTHERN COLONIES

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SOUTHERN COLONIES
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• 1. Virginia 1607
• 2. Maryland 1632
• 3. The Carolinas 1663
• 4. Georgia 1732

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• Cash crop economy
• Plantations
• Slave labor

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Slave Trade

• TRIANGULAR TRADE
• colonial American shipping industry involved the
  trading of rum for African Slaves
• MIDDLE PASSAGE
• the gruesome ocean voyage to America of Africans
  who were sold into slavery

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Slave Codes

• lifetime servitude
• inheritable servitude
• usually forbade whites from teaching slaves to
  read or write