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tobacco became a cash crop in Virginia in the year 1612
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dutch ship sold twenty africans to the colonists in jamestown
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slavery grew in all 13 colones
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virginia passed laws to stop people from helping runaway enslaved person
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there could be no marriages between races
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the colonies of maryland and virginia made laws that denied blacks
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slavery became law in maryland in 1664
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31 percent of the people living in maryland were enslaved