Southern Colonies

Carolina

• Territory granted to eight nobles by the king of England

• Many Carolina colonists came from Barbados bringing with them the harsh slave system

• By 1710, the colonists had annihilated the Indian tribes of coastal Carolina

Carolina Agriculture

• Primary export crop was rice• Grown in West Africa so West African slaves

were highly prized because of their familiarity with rice cultivation

• Charles Town grew as the major city in the South (we know it today as Charleston)

North Carolina

• Consisted primarily of Virginias poor. • Raised tobacco on small farms with little or

now slaves (slavery was too expensive) • “a vale of humility between two mountains of

conceit”• Separated from South Carolina in 1729 and

became a royal colony

Colonial Georgia

• Founded in 1732• Last of the 13 colonies• English crown wanted it to serve as a buffer

between the Carolinas and the Spanish• Founded by James Oglethorpe• Major city was Savannah• Slavery emerges in Georgia after 1750