slavery

  • 1st

    in 1612 john rolfe started growing tobacco to sell
  • the ships

    in 1619 ships started sell africans to people that wanted to grow cash crops
  • the law

    in 1642 virgina made a law that people could not help slaves escape or they would be fined 20 pounds of tobacco
  • another law :\ wow

    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
  • too many slaves

    in the 1670s there were too many slaves most of virginna was taken by people
  • Period: to

    1680s timeline :<

    the owners of the plantation relied on the slaves to do every single piece of work that they had.
  • in 1692

    the slaves could not own horses cattle or hogs
  • 1700

    most people in maryland and virgina were enslaved to work for people who wanted money and riches
  • 1705

    all the people that were slaves were property to the people that owned them
  • 1750

    people gre at least 100 millon pounds of tobacco the price came at loss of human freedom