What were the family relationships like in the New England and Southern colonies in early American history?
Answer Thanks, Steve, for the question: Three distinct systems of slavery emerged in the English colonies in North America. One centered in the Chesapeake area (Maryland and Virginia), one in South Carolina and Georgia, and one in the non-plantation societies of New England and the Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania). Colonial slavery was not all of one type; it differed markedly across these three regions and developed peculiar cultures over time. The advent of staple tobacco production and the emergence of a planter class transformed the Chesapeake into a slave society in the mid-seventeenth century. Shortly thereafter, slavery emerged in the Lower Colonies as South Carolina and Georgia began to produce substantial quantities of rice and indigo. The northern colonies did not experience a tobacco or rice revolution; the climate barred their extensive production. As a result, slavery did not predominate in the northern colonies; rather, slavery remained one form of lab
