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  Jamestown was set up in 1607 and was very successful.
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  Indentured servants arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607.
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  By 1610, a brutal storm left only 65 colonists.
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  First African Americans land in Jamestown, Virginia.
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  In the 1680s, more than 30 million pounds of tobacco per year.