McKenzie Reed

  • Cash Crop

    Tabacco became a cash crop because scientist exported the tobacco and they sold it.
  • cash crops

    A dutch ship sold twenty Africans to the colonists in Jamestown. This was the beginning of save labor in the colonies.
  • cash crop

    Enslaved persons were used to produce these cash crops.
  • cash crops

    Virginia passed laws to stop people from helping runaway enslaved persons
  • 1660

    All blacks who lived in the colony were enslaved persons.
  • 1670

    By 1670,the greatest number of blacks were in the colonies of Virginia(2,000blacks)and Maryland(1,190 blacks).