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In Virginia the colonists founded Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Pocahontas is captured by English settlers and held hostage in an attempt to recover settlers taken prisoner by Pocahontas' father, Powhatan.
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About 20 African servants were sent to the colony. These might have been the first Africans in Virginia. A 1620 census records 32 Africans in the colony.
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Virginia's population grew to have 15,000 whites and 300 Africans.
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Bacon and his followers attacked and burned Jamestown in an uprising.
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William Berkeley sails for England, having been pressured to resign his office.
