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The Province of Carolina, originally chartered in 1608, was an English and later British colony of North America.Because the original charter was unrealized and was ruled invalid, a new charter was issued to a group of eight English noblemen, the Lords Proprietors, on March 24, 1663. [6]
Charleston became a booming trade town for the southern colonies. The abundance of pine trees in the area provided raw materials for shipyards to develop, and the harbor provided a safe port for English ships bringing in imported goods. The colonists exported tobacco, indigo and rice and imported tea, sugar, and slaves.
The local economy in the Balls and southern colonies was characterized by the headright, the right to receive 50 acres (200,000 m 2) of land for any immigrant who settled in Virginia or paid for the transportation of an immigrant who settled in Virginia (51.342 acres (207,770 m 2) per head).
An influential scholarly study was Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders (1913), which portrayed an isolated and culturally inert people. [121] The bleak image inspired northern philanthropy, such as the Rockefeller foundations, to intervene using modern public health techniques and to promote better schooling.
The Southern Colonies were mainly dominated by the wealthy planters in Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina. They owned increasingly large plantations that were worked by African slaves. Of the 650,000 inhabitants of the South in 1750, about 250,000 or 40 percent, were slaves.
The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732; Edelson, S. Max. Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (2007) Hewat, Alexander. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia Vol.1 and Vol.2 (London 1779) Higgins, W. Robert. "The geographical origins of Negro slaves in Colonial South Carolina."
The message of spiritual equality appealed to many enslaved people, and, as African religious traditions continued to decline in North America, black people accepted Christianity in large numbers for the first time. [93] Evangelical leaders in the southern colonies had to deal with the issue of slavery more frequently than those in the North.
The American gentry were rich landowning members of the American upper class in the colonial Southern United States. Mount Vernon, Virginia, was the plantation home of George Washington. George Washington. The Colonial American use of gentry was not common. Historians use it to refer to rich landowners in the South before 1776.