Chapter 3 Section 2

“The Agricultural South”

• If you were enslaved in the colonies, what would you do?

• I’m sure you would not want to suffer your fate, so what would you do to rebel?

• BE CAREFUL, there are always consequences to your actions!!!

• 1. What’s going on in your picture?

• 2. What EMOTION WORDS can you use when you look at your picture?

• 3. What does your picture show you about the Atlantic Slave Trade or Middle Passage?

Plantation Economy

• Cash crop:

• Why did plantations develop instead of towns in the Southern Colonies? (3 reasons)

• South was mostly rural and self-sufficient

• Planters-owners- of large profitable plantations controlled much of the South’s economy, politics, and social institutions.

• There was great wealth in the South, particularly for Chesapeake tobacco planters.

Women

• Few rights• Couldn’t vote, preach, own property• Did a large amount of work on the farm and in

the home• Second class citizens

Indentured Servants

• Traded prison or poverty to come to America• No rights while under indenture • Life continued to be hard afterward• Numbers of indentured servants dropped by

the end of the 1600s

Slavery

• Most white colonists had no reservations about buying slaves

• Atlantic Slave Trade (Triangular Trade): network of trade routes criss-crossing the colonies, West Indies, England, Europe, & Africa

Middle Passage

• Describe: