Tag: Southern Colonies

Reviews Posted on October 3, 2013February 26, 2014

Could America Have Thrived Without Slavery?

Could the new nation have thrived economically if slavery had been abolished when the colonies won independence? Probably would have thrived even more. Tobacco economy was bust by the 1770s, Virginia and Maryland had too many slaves, freeing them would have pushed Virginians into other economic fields, led more into the Ohio territory (where […]

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Reviews Posted on January 30, 2013August 28, 2016

Life in the Southern Colonies (part 2 of 3)

Read Part 1 The economic life of the Southern colonists was also most positive as the colonial period continued. Up until the end of French and Indian War, when strict supervision began, the British had allowed the colonists a fair degree of freedom in all their economic endeavors. While the mother country had attempted to […]

by David Lee Russell