Amongst the southern colonies the biggest similarity that connected them was plantation. These southern colonies survived as well as made their living from tobacco, rice and indigo. The plantation allowed them a religious freedom, as many of these southerners where more interested in making money rather then attending a holly mass. However the plantation in these colonies where owned by the Caucasian, therefore slaves where a common factor in their harvesting success. Slaves became common throughout these colonies, making them the prime source of their existence, these colonies abused of the slaves and found no wrong in slave labor. The colonies where made up of people searching for a different lifestyle from the one in England, and therefore making them exploiters. And all where named after Kings and Queens, also the years they where founded differ quite a bit. Differences did exist, Maryland was in fact a religious colony unlike the rest, Georgia was not such a well developed colony yet and was filled with more wilderness then civilization at the time. Virginia was more focused on expansion westward, and North and South Carolina wanted to remain closer to the coast. Nevertheless they became more distinct from other England colonies because of how they achieved success, enslavement would go on to become a prime subject of protest in order to abolish the harsh injustice.
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