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William S. Southern colonies

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Money Making

Good for growing cash crops

Come practice catholic doings in Maryland

Reason for founding catholic colonies business protection of Carolina's block Spanish wealthy British wanted to help poor from going to debtors prison.

Business

The Southern colonies have fertile soil good for growing cash crops like indigo

The southern colonies have warm weather with a long growing season for your crops

The southern colonies also have long hot and humid summers with swamp good for growing rice

Lumbering

Tobacco

Cotton

Rice

Wheat

Milk

Shipping

Pantitions

Indigo

Beef

Fishing

Corn

Facts About Slaves

Harriet Tubman

Slavery

1. The first legal slave owner in American history was a black tobacco farmer named Anthony Johnson.

2. North Carolina's largest slave holder in 1860 was a black plantation owner named William Ellison.

3. American Indians owned thousands of slaves.

4. In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves.

5. Brutal black on black slavery was common for thousands of years in Africa.

6. Most slaves brought to America from Africa were purchased from black slave owners.

Long harsh winters not ideal for growing crops rocky coasts also to purified

winter freezing and snowy summers blazing not an ideal growing season

The place to be rich soil with an ideal growing season all year round good for growing cash crops also protection from Spanish