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in 1612 john rolfe started growing tobacco to sell
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in 1619 ships started sell africans to people that wanted to grow cash crops
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in 1642 virgina made a law that people could not help slaves escape or they would be fined 20 pounds of tobacco
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in the 1660s they made a law so the slaves could not marry other races and the could not travel without a not from their owners
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in the 1670s there were too many slaves most of virginna was taken by people
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the owners of the plantation relied on the slaves to do every single piece of work that they had.
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the slaves could not own horses cattle or hogs
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most people in maryland and virgina were enslaved to work for people who wanted money and riches
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all the people that were slaves were property to the people that owned them
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people gre at least 100 millon pounds of tobacco the price came at loss of human freedom