Varied ways of life
By Alexis White
Large Landhold
- Some large landholders lived in the Southern plantation.
- The planters have rich social culture.
- They usually live in large houses.
- There houses are filled with furniture,china,and silverware.
- They wore elegant clothing.
- They held thier o balls and dances.
- Some of them served as judges or a members of the colonial assembly.
- They were the most educated people in the colonies.
- Some of the planters sitted up thier own school for thier own childern.
- They even hired their own teachers from Eurupe.
- Later The sons of the planters maybe go to Europe to get a better aducation.
- The girls went to school until they were 12 or 13.
- The daughters of the planters are expected to only learn basic skills like to read and sew with thier needles.
- If laber needed to run large plantations, planters relied on enslaved African Americans or on indentured servents.
- A planter's wife and the planter are responsible for taking care of they many people who lived on the plantantoin.
- They had to provent medical care for family members and workers.
- They provide clothe and give them food.
Farmers
- A few people in the colonies lived and owned large plantation.
- In the fact,most colonist worked and lived on small farms.
- They often raised grains,fruits,vegetables,and other crop that grow in their reign.
- They mostly lived on what they raised.
- If they had leftover they would sell it to the market that's near them.
- The money that that the farmer made at the market is used to buy goods they couldn't by for themselves.
- Some owners of small farms relied on there family members for labor.
- Together,the family members did all the work.
- They all chopped down trees,built barns,plowed fields,planted crops,and they even raised animals.
- Some farmers could afford to have enslaved workers or indentured servants.
- Some farmers grew rich,unlike planters.
- Colonial farmhouses usually had only three or two rooms and a loft.
- Some even had a fireplace that will provide heat and a place to cook.
- Farm families owned only some items of furniture.
Womens
- The woman in the colonial times were married at the age 14.
- The woman was not allowed to own there own property or business.
- In most cases,when a woman got married her husband pretty much owned what was hers.
- All of the woman and girls had fewer chances to work outside like the man and boys.
- Most of the woman worked as homemakers,caretakers,and housekeepers.
- They even cooked fruit and vegetables and they even preserved them in jars for winter.
- They even churned milk to make cheese,candles,even soap.
- They sewed,knitted clothing,and they even spun yarn.
- The women also cared for there children.
- Most colonial families were often very huge.
- One day a visitor came to the colonies and noted "There is not a cabin but has 10 or 12 young children in it.
- With only a few doctors in the colonies the women had to take care of there own children when they were sick or hurt.
- The women couldn't vote,and they had very few opportunities to go to school.
- Only New England girls and planters' daughters generally learned to read.
Artisans and Indentured Servants.
- Plantations as well as towns and cities was the workplace of artisans,or skilled craft workers.
- In the colonies,the air is filled with the sound of carpenters,blacksmiths,silversmith,and brick makers.
- The bakers,butchers,flour millers,even soap makers shops to.
- There were even shoe makers ,printers,even clock makers.
- These skills used by artisans were not even taught in school.
- Instead younger people learned the skills by becoming apprentices.
- An apprentice trained and even lived with a master for a couple of years.
- The boys became an apprentice at the age of 14.
- The girls generally couldn't become apprentices.
- The apprentices usually will work with a master craftworkers for about seven years.
- Finally they are now ready to work own there own after 7 years of training.
- Some of the artisans will rely on there indentured servants to do there work.
- The life of an Indentured Servants was really hard they had to work with out money for four to seven years.
- They really had no rights and they couldn't vote.
- But they were free after their term of service.
Credits
- History.com
- Wikipedia
- Virginia Social Studies