The backcountry The laborious business is here chiefly done by black slaves of which there are

great multitudes. The climate is very warm; the chief produce is rice & indigo;

the manufacture of hemp is set afoot & likely to succeed very well. They have

considerable lumber and naval stores [tar, pitch, and turpentine). They export

annually 100,000 barrels of rice & 60,000 lbs. indigo,..

.-Pelatiah Webster, Personal Journal, 1765

a New England Colony

a Southern Colony

Based on information in the excerpt, the author was most likely living in -

(8.11A/293)

a Middle Colony

The correct answer is "Southern Colony".

These concepts and activities were part of the backcountry in the American colony of South Carolina.

In colonial American times, the backcountry was that part of the American territory west of the Appalachian Mountains. The English people considered this land as a native and remote land, inhabited by primitive Native American Indian tribes. The government of Great Britain issued the Proclamation of 1763 after the French and Indian War. This proclamation prohibited American colonists to settle these territories west of the Appalachians. The English crown tried to prevent further land conflicts. Of course, the American people disobey the terms of the Proclamation.

Years later, this part of the country started to be settled by colonists and founded places such as South Carolina, where people started to grow important cash crops such as hemp, indigo, and rice.