The Agricultural South

Chapter 3, Section 2

Southern Life

• Profitable crop that saved Jamestown:

Tobacco

• Cash crop: a crop grown in large quantities primarily to sell

Southern Life

• Tobacco is a labor-intensive crop– Originally enslaved natives, but this proved

too difficult

1. Knew the land and could escape

2. Dying from smallpox

Southern Life

• Began enslaving Africans– From 1690 to 1750:

# of African Slaves in Southern Colonies

13,000

63,000

113,000

163,000

213,000

1690 1750

Year

# of

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Southern Life

Plantation Owners

Free white men

Indentured servants and women

Slaves and natives

The Slave Trade

• Triangular trade

• Middle Passage

Slave Resistance

• Ways that slaves resisted their owners:– Faked sick– Broke tools– Worked slowly

Slave Resistance

• Stono Rebellion: a group of S.C. slaves gathered weapons and rose up against owners; many Africans were killed whether they were involved or not

– Began a crackdown on slaves

Resources

• Slavery• The Slave Trade, “Amazing Grace”• Slavery in Pictures