Slavery in the Southern Colonies. Daily Life of the New England Colonies. New England Colonies Daily Life Life in the New England Colonies was hard.
Every family member that could walk helped with the chores. Even though the colonies had poor soil most people farmed. Most farms were either too small or too poor to have African slaves. Before the farm was used they had to cut down the trees and use them to make the house and the farm yard; like fences and the barn, of course. What was life like in the Southern Colonies. In the early 1600s, most southern colonists lived in utter poverty, and men outnumbered women three to one.
Southern colonists suffered high mortality rates because of the many mosquito-born illnesses that plagued the land. As a result, the average southern man could expect to live only forty years, while southern women usually did not live past their late thirties. Moreover, one-quarter of all children born in the southern colonies died in infancy, and half died before they reached adulthood. Northern & Southern Colonies. Expert: Hank Hokamp - 9/2/2008 QuestionHello, I wanted to know if you would be able to answer the following question for me: "How different were the Northern and Southern Colonies in America?
" I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere. Thanks so much for your help, Abigail.