HIST 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Roanoke Colony, Eleanor Dare, Southern Colonies
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Women"s experiences during the colonial era varied from colony to colony, but overall patterns did exist. Many british settlers came from england and wales, with fewer numbers coming from scotland and ireland. Groups of families settled in new england, while families continued to settle in the southern colonies independently. Several thousand dutch and swedish settlers were absorbed into the american colonies. After 1700, most immigrants came as indentured servants to colonial america young unmarried men and women looking for a new existence in a much richer setting. A steady flow of black slaves, mainly from the caribbean, arrived after the 1660s. Food supplies were much more plentiful than in europe, and the abundance of fertile land provided by farm families was abundant. In the malaria-ridden south, however, the disease environment was hostile, where a large portion of the arrivals died within five years. The children born in the united states were immune from fatal malaria forms.
