The Three Colonial Regions

The three colonial regions are the New England Colonies, Middle colonies, and the southern colonies. The New England Colonies are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The middle colonies were New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The Southern colonies are Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The most famous colonies for slavery were the southern colonies. Slaves mostly lived on plantations and did some housework. But most of the slaves worked on fields and suffered great cruelty. In 1705, the colony of Virginia created a slave code. The slaves worked from dawn to dusk supervised by the land owner. Slaves would live in cabins on the plantation and slaves who would run away and be