Southern Society

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Southern Society

• Family
• Plantation Society
• Slavery

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Southern Family

• Death rate very High most died 1st year
• Life expectancy 20 years less than N E.
• Most settlers young men 6 to 1 ratio
• By 1700 about 2 1/2 to 1.
• A spouse would die within 7 years
• Women had less children they had to
• Wait to complete indenture servitude

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Virginian Tobacco Farm
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Plantation Society

• Virginia Maryland tobacco cash crop
• No freeman was willing to grow another
• Mans tobacco
• Grow wealthy by buying land and getting
• Labor. Turned to slave labor
• Stratification gentry, freeman, indenture,
• And slaves
• Gentry class came to dominate society
• Less educated, William and Mary, gentry
• Children often educated in Europe

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Slave Trade
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Slave Ship
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Development of slavery

• History universal institution ag. society
• Sugar plantations Portuguese, Spain,
• England. Caribbean, South America
• 4 to North America, Natural increase
• 500,000 between 1619-1760. 5m by 1860.
• First Africans treated as indentured, many
• Became free, owned their own land, p 74
• By 1700 Africans seen as slave race
• Greed for labor, exploitation
• Slave codes no property, no guns, no
  education, cannot travel, no groups