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Tabacco became a cash crop because scientist exported the tobacco and they sold it.
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A dutch ship sold twenty Africans to the colonists in Jamestown. This was the beginning of save labor in the colonies.
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Enslaved persons were used to produce these cash crops.
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Virginia passed laws to stop people from helping runaway enslaved persons
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All blacks who lived in the colony were enslaved persons.
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By 1670,the greatest number of blacks were in the colonies of Virginia(2,000blacks)and Maryland(1,190 blacks).