Most of our discoveries didn’t just pop out of the blue. No, they came from a certain time period in the past that has evolved over time into something much larger and improved. The southern colonies were established in the seventieth and eighteenth centuries by England in North America. Consisting of Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. The purpose of founding these colonies was to compete with other European powers in the search of wealth, land, and clothing. Over time they developed an economy based on cash crops such as tobacco, indigo, rice and cotton. The southern colonies were an ideal place for agriculture. The climate was warm and damp, which made it easy to grow plants. Virginia’s and Maryland’s main crop was tobacco, Georgia grew cotton, rice, and indigo, and South Carolina’s main crop was rice, indigo, sugarcane and cotton as well. The people who harvested these plantations were African American slaves and people of the poverty. We still use most of these products that were grown centuries ago. In fact, they play a large part of our life providing everyday uses. The southern colonies is the beginning of plantations to produce products that are still around centuries later. The land was rich of …show more content…
The people who worked the land was people of the poverty and African American slaves. The slaves were treated horribly. Slaves would have to work almost all day every day, no matter what the climate consisted of. If they complained about the work or the conditions they were beaten and whipped. This is the very reason why slaves died at young ages. The remaining of the slaves survived by keeping their culture together. For instance, they sang songs of their traditions, created a language called Gullah, and played instruments. The banjo, a music instrument, was created by the African Americans. Most bluegrass bands use the banjo as part of their main