Ian Mullaney, Joshua Cannon

  • Cash Crop

    John Rolfe began to grow tobacco in Virginia.
  • Selling Africans

    A Dutch ship sold twenty Africans to the colonists in Jamestown.
  • Passing Laws

    Virginia passed laws to stop people from helping runaway enslaved persons.

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