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Tobacco became a cash crop n Virginia in the year 112
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In 1619 a Dutch ship sold twenty Africans to the colonists in Jamestown
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In 1642,Virginia passed laws to stop people from helping runaway enslaved person
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In the 1660s the colonies of Maryland and Virginia made laws that denied blacks their right slavery became law in Maryland in 1664
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By 1670 the greatest number of blacks were in the colonies of Virginia(2000)
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The rights of blacks became even more limited in 1692 Virginia passed new laws