The 13 colonies were divided up into regional categories known as The New England colonies, The Middle colonies and The Southern Colonies. The New England Colonies consisted of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, & Connecticut. The Middle Colonies consisted of New Netherlands( New York) Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The Southern colonies consisted of Virginia, Maryland, South and North Carolina and Georgia. In the following essay you will see how these different regions of colonies shared some similarities and many differences.
All of the colonies had slaves, but slavery was of more importance in the Southern colonies than it was in the New England or Middle Colonies. Virginia was settled in 1605 and then Jamestown in 1607. It was a corporate colony who ran under the Virginia company. James Rolfe ended up finding the South’s biggest staple crop which was Tobacco. This tobacco was from the west indies and was much milder and many people took to it. The tobacco thrived in these southern colonies but the labor was hard and there were not enough laborers to help. So in 1609 Virginia purchased 20 slaves to help out on their plantations. Slavery from this point on increased dramatically in the South as they needed the labor to help with their ever growing crops such as tobacco, rice, indigo.etc. These plantations in the south could not have thrived without these slaves. Now the Northern and Middle Colonies did have slaves but it was not as prominent as in the south. Northern and Middle colonies did not have plantations or farms as the soil was rocky and the weather was not fit for crops to thrive. The slaves were used as laborers and builders in The northern region. Maritime and ship building was their money maker and slaves were used to help output production of these. So even though the North and the south were similar in that they both had slaves, the difference laid in what they used them for and also the importance of them.
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