Sept. 19th Class Notes

Sorry it's late, I had some issues with the whole technology thing.

Comparing the changing economies of the South, Middle, and New England colonies:
-South Carolina became biggest southern economic powerhose
-big social divisions
- rich plantation owners at top, then smaller planters, slavless farmers, laborers/ farm hands, and slaves were at the bottom
-small merchant class, plantation owners would hire them whenever they were needed
-almost all southern colonies were not dependent on the slave trade, save early south carolina due to disease problems
-New England began to lose economic steam
-disease began to kill many of the white settlers
-education was much more prominent up north, mostly everybody was educated
-involved in triangle trade, with many triangles
-Middle Colonies
-engaged in more and more trade due to food surpluses
-most diverse of all the colonies (with the most educated slaves)
-Scot-Irish settlers arrived in late 1600s
-they moved to the backcountry and developed their own culture
-Slavery: Task System vs Gang System
-Gang System
-had an overseer, and slaves were sent out in groups
- most prominent in VA and MD
-Task System
-slaves were given a job, and left to do it, with no overseer
-when they finsihed their job they had free time
-prominent in SC, because of disease in rice fields


Peace.