Economic: had the largest slave population who worked on the plantations. The plantations grew cotton, tobacco, sugar, indigo (a purple dye), and other crops.
Main jobs: some of the most common and main jobs was farming, printers, shoe makers, and carpenters.
Daily life: the ones who owned there farm land could offer their children a good education. The kids who did not own there own farms would just learn how to read and wright and manage to farm. Rich families would have slaves to do there farms.
Credits:
Created with images by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL - "A general map of the southern British colonies, in America" • TBIT - "dollar bank note money"