The Colonial South

Chesapeake

Coastal South Carolina and Georgia

Upcountry (Piedmont, Backcountry)

Kenneth Bertelson, The Lazy South
      -allurement

Jamestown
      -Virginia Company of London, 1606-1622
      -Gentlemen and Adventurers
      -Headright System

Indentured Servitude
      -apprenticeship

Transplantations

Commitment to Slavery
      -English migration
      -Bacon's Rebellion
           -Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
      -slave prices
      -mortality rate
      -racism
           -Winthrop Jordan, White Over Black
                -(Abridged: White Man's Burden)

Self-Reproducing Slave Society

South Carolina
     -Peter Wood, Black Majority
     -Enumerated List
     -War of Jenkins' Ear
            -War of Austrian Succession
     -Stono Rebellion (1739)
     -Negro Act of 1740


Comparisons of New World Slave Societies

Acculturation

White Social Structure
     -Cavalier Myth
     -Charles Sydnor,
Gentlemen Freeholders

Tidewater-Piedmont Comparisons

 


  Tidewater-Piedmont


     Jamestown, 1607


     Settlement, 1650


     Settlement, 1750


South Carolina Origins

Shenandoah Route to South
Backcountry Migrations