Kara

By mwaddell

  • cash crop

    tobacco became a cash crop

  • slave labor

    A Dutch ship sold twenty Africans to the colonies in Jamestown .This was the beginning of slave labor in the colonies .

  • passed laws

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

  • blacks

    The greatest number of blacks were in the colonies of Virginia (2000 blacks) and Maryland (1190 blacks)

  • new laws

    Virginia passed new laws

  • percent of the people living

    22 percent of the people living in Virginia and Maryland were enslaves.

  • more percent of the poeple living

    31 percent of the people living in Maryland were enslaved persons.