5d - Social Perspectives of Colonists

Lived predominantly in the South

• Large Landowners
• Farmers
• Merchants
• Artisans

Relied on indentured servants and/or enslaved African Americans for labor.

• Large Landowners
• Farmers
• Merchants
• Artisans

Were educated in some cases.

• Large Landowners
• Indentured Servants
• Free African Americans
• Enslaved Africans Americans

Had rich social culture

• Large Landowners
• Merchants
• Farmers
• Enslaved Africans Americans

Worked the land according to the region

• Large Landowners
• Merchants
• Farmers
• Enslaved Africans Americans

Relied on family members for labor

• Large Landowners
• Merchants
• Farmers
• Indentured Servants

Worked as craftsmen in towns and on plantations

• Artisans
• Merchants
• Farmers
• Indentured Servants

Were men and women who did not have money for passage to the colonies and who agreed to work without pay for the person who paid for their passage

• Artisans
• Merchants
• Farmers
• Indentured Servants

Were free at the end of their contract

• Artisans
• Merchants
• Farmers
• Indentured Servants

Were captured in their native Africa and sold to slave traders, then were shipped to the colonies where they were sold into slavery

• Enslaved African Americans
• Merchants
• Free African Americans
• Indentured Servants