Colonial South and the Chesapeake

Alright kiddo, let's talk about the colonial south and the Chesapeake!

Back in the olden days, there were a bunch of people who sailed across this big ocean to a place called America. Some of these people went to a part of America called the colonial south.

The colonial south was made up of lots of farms called plantations. On these farms, people grew crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo. The people who owned these farms had lots of workers who they called slaves. These slaves were mostly from a place called Africa and were forced to work very hard on the farms.

Now let's talk about the Chesapeake. The Chesapeake was another part of the colonial south, but it was different from the other farms. The Chesapeake was made up of large estates owned by rich people called gentlemen. These gentlemen owned lots of land but didn't do much work themselves. Instead, they had other people, called indentured servants, who worked for them for a few years in exchange for food and a place to live.

So that's the colonial south and the Chesapeake in a nutshell, kiddo. It was a time when people from Europe came over to America and made their homes here. Some people owned plantations and enslaved people to work on them, while others owned large estates and had indentured servants work for them.