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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on slavery in the united states.
Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on slavery in the united states. In 1612 English planter John Rolfe who settled in Jamestown, Virginia was credited with successfully cultivating tobacco as an export crop in Virginia. Earlier English settlers did not like the taste of the tobacco grown there. In order to improve the taste Rolfe crossed the breed from Trinidad which had a sweeter taste with the Virginia tobacco to produce a plant that took well to the local soil. Rolfe was the first to cultivate these plants in North America and its export resulted in a boost of the Virginia colony’s economy. The popularity of tobacco in England and the available land in the Virginia colony led to plantations all over Virginia. Tobacco crops could best grow on extensive farmland. Growers constantly needed additional labor. Colonial leaders wanted indentured servants. That included “20 and some odd Negroes” brought to Virginia by a Dutch ship in 1619.” Blacks had been captured in Africa and were sold at auction in Jamestown. There have been conflicting accounts indicating how the first blacks in America were treated. “The status of the first blacks in the New World remains somewhat mysterious, and any thesis about the change in black status generates sharp controversy.
