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The Southern Colonies of British Colonial America consisted of the Province of North Carolina
Province of North Carolina

The Province of North Carolina was originally part of the Province of Carolina, which was chartered by eight Lords Proprietors. The province later became the U.S....
, the Province of South Carolina
Province of South Carolina

The South Carolina Colony was originally part of the Province of Carolina, which was chartered in 1663. The colony later became the U.S. state of South Carolina....
, and the Province of Georgia
Province of Georgia

The Province of Georgia was one of the Southern colonies in British North America. It was the last of the Thirteen original colonies established by Kingdom of Great Britain in what later became the United States....
. The Colony and Dominion of Virginia
Colony and Dominion of Virginia

The Colony of Virginia was the English colony in North America that existed briefly during the 16th century, and then continuously from 1607 until the American Revolution ....
 and the Province of Maryland
Province of Maryland

The Province of Maryland was an English colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen colonies in establishing the United States and became the U.S....
 have also been considered a part of the Southern Colonies.

The hope of gold, resources, and virgin lands drew English colonists to the Southern Colonies. Their economy was driven by plantations, initially worked by indentured servant
Indentured servant

An indentured servant is a form of debt bondage worker. The laborer is under contract of an employer for usually three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging and other necessities....
s, a labor force which was largely replaced in the early 18th century by slaves imported from Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
, except for Georgia, where most plantations were worked by debtors.






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The Southern Colonies of British Colonial America consisted of the Province of North Carolina
Province of North Carolina

The Province of North Carolina was originally part of the Province of Carolina, which was chartered by eight Lords Proprietors. The province later became the U.S....
, the Province of South Carolina
Province of South Carolina

The South Carolina Colony was originally part of the Province of Carolina, which was chartered in 1663. The colony later became the U.S. state of South Carolina....
, and the Province of Georgia
Province of Georgia

The Province of Georgia was one of the Southern colonies in British North America. It was the last of the Thirteen original colonies established by Kingdom of Great Britain in what later became the United States....
. The Colony and Dominion of Virginia
Colony and Dominion of Virginia

The Colony of Virginia was the English colony in North America that existed briefly during the 16th century, and then continuously from 1607 until the American Revolution ....
 and the Province of Maryland
Province of Maryland

The Province of Maryland was an English colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen colonies in establishing the United States and became the U.S....
 have also been considered a part of the Southern Colonies.

The hope of gold, resources, and virgin lands drew English colonists to the Southern Colonies. Their economy was driven by plantations, initially worked by indentured servant
Indentured servant

An indentured servant is a form of debt bondage worker. The laborer is under contract of an employer for usually three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging and other necessities....
s, a labor force which was largely replaced in the early 18th century by slaves imported from Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
, except for Georgia, where most plantations were worked by debtors. Colonial South Carolina relied mainly on the Indian slave trade
Indian slavery

Indian slavery was the practice of using indigenous peoples of the Americas as slaves....
 and deerskin trade
Deerskin trade

The deerskin trade between Colonial America and the Native Americans in the United Statess was one of the most important trading relationships between Europeans and Native Americans, especially in the southeast....
 until the Yamasee War
Yamasee War

The Yamasee War was a conflict between Province of Carolina and various Native Americans in the United States tribes including the Yamasee, Creek people, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Catawba , Apalachee, Apalachicola , Yuchi, Savannah River Shawnee, Congaree , Waxhaws, Pee Dee , Cape Fear Indians, Cheraw , and many others....
 of 1715. Thereafter the colony's economy became diversified. Rice plantations, and later other cash crops like cotton, wor Georgia]] traded with Great Britain
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
, slave ships from Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
, and the Caribbean
Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
. Their cash crops were tobacco
Tobacco

Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines....
, cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
, indigo
Indigo

Indigo is the color on the electromagnetic spectrum between about 420 and 450 nanometre in wavelength, placing it between blue and violet . Although traditionally considered one of seven divisions of the optical spectrum, modern color scientists do not usually recognize indigo as a separate division and generally classify wavelengths shorter...
, rice
Rice

Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
, and sugar cane.

Throughout the colonies, the government
Government

Government is the body within any organization that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws, regulations, or rules. Typically, the government refers to a civil government -- local, provincial, or national -- but commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also administered by governing bodies....
, subject to the Crown and royal governors, was dominated mainly by planters
Plantation

A plantation is usually a large farm or Estate , especially in a tropical or semitropical country, like Brazil or Nicaragua on which cotton, tobacco, lice coffee, sugar cane and the like are cultivated, usually by resident laborers....
 and farmers, and consisted only of men and landowners.

See also

  • Thirteen Colonies
    Thirteen Colonies

    The Thirteen Colonies were part of what became known as British America, a name that was used by Great Britain until the Treaty of Paris recognized the independence of the original thirteen United States of America in 1783....
  • Middle Colonies
    Middle Colonies

    The Middle Colonies, also known as the Bread Colonies for the region's production of wheat and grain, were one area of Thirteen Colonies in pre-Revolutionary War Northern America....
  • New England Colonies
    New England Colonies

    The New England Colonies of British Colonial America included colonies of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Connecticut Colony, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and Province of New Hampshire....
  • Chesapeake Colonies
  • Colonial America
    Colonial America

    The term colonial history of the United States refers to the history of the land that would become the United States from the start of European colonization of the Americas to the time of independence from Europe, and especially to the history of the thirteen colonies which declared themselves independent in 1776....