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Section 2: The Agricultural South 1. Main Idea: In the Southern Colonies a predominantly agricultural society developed. 2. Why does it matter now:The modern South maintains many of its agricultural traditions.

//Notes:// = = =**A Plantation Economy Arises**= //Since the early days of Jamestown//, with the use of **//slaves//**, the Southern people planted tobacco for living. This idea later brings the South to build large plantation for profit. People usually planted one single crop, called **cash crop**.

//Tobacco// was the main cash crop in-
North Carolina Maryland Virginia

//Rice and later Indigo// was the main cash crop in-
South Carolina Georgia

//Geographically,// they had access to rivers which had ocean-going vessels. Farmers conveniently shipped their crops by these vessels. //Therefore,// farmers didn't feel the need for shops, bakeries and markets.

=**Life in Southern Societies**= //Diversity// was the way to describe the Southern people. The massive migration to the colonies in the 1700s created such diversity. The Germans settled throughout Virginia, Maryland and even stretched until South Carolina. Likewise, Scot or Scot-irish people settled in the south, especially the West sides of North Carolina.

Women, just like in the Northern colonies, was treated as second class citizens.

They had a lot of //limitations// including-
few legal, social rights right to vote or preach limit in education

Their main jobs were-
household cleanings sewing milking the cow slaughtering the pigs

//However,// planter class had servants who did their job for them //Nevertheless,// women strictly followed their husband's decisions.

=**Slavery becomes Entrenched**= When slavery of Natives or the use of servants failed, they looked for an alternative, **Africans.** White people felt African's dark skin as sign of **inferiority**, and farmers were guaranteed full life service**.**
 * Thus,** by 1750, 200,000 Africans were brought as slaves.

//The triangular trade,// traded African slaves for goods and were sold to different places. West Indies, part of the trade, used these slaves long before Americans.

//Middle Passage,// is the passage between the West Indies to the North Americans. The Environment here is beyond imaginable, living with their own vomit in the slave ship. 20% of Africans slaves did not make it to the New World

//80% of slaves worked in the fields;// other domestic slaves did households stuff, and few others learned skills to become artisans. //Their environment was terrible// whipped, beat up people who were thought as disrespectful.

=**Africans Cope in their New World**=

Though they were slaves, Africans kept their own culture and bonded together like a family.

Their customs included-
wearing baskets & molded pottery retold stories musical traditions (Maryland to Georgia)circular religious Dance Africans would raise kids from different family to help out.

Enslaved Africans never enjoyed obeying unquestionably. Soon, slaves opened a uprising, **Stono Rebellion,** on September Sunday in 1739 gathered in Stono River. Rebellions continued, 1279 slaves tried to flee away from owners. Marriage of fleeing African and Native became common.

This marks how the South is VERY dependent on slaves, creates significant differences with NORTH.

THE END:)