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