Answer: Famous people in the southern colonies are John Smith, George Calvert, Lord Proprietors, Charter of Carolina, and James Oglethorpe.
The Southern Colonies concentrated on agriculture and developed the plantations exporting tobacco, cotton, corn, vegetables, grain, fruit and livestock. The Southern Colonies had the largest slave population who worked on the Slave Plantations. Plantations grew cotton, tobacco, indigo (a purple dye), and other crops.
