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by the year 1700 22 percent of people living in Virginia and Maryland were enslaved 1700
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tobacco became a cash crop in Virginia in the year 1612
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a dutch ship sold twenty aficans to the colonists in jamestown
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Virginia passed laws to stop people from helping runaway enslaved persons
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slavery became law in Maryland in 1664
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by 1670 the greatest number if blacks were in the colonies of Virginia 2000 blacks and 1190