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  • Johne Rolfe

    In 1612 Johne Rolfe began to grow tobacco in Virginia
  • Slavery begins

    In 1619 a Dutch ship sold twenty Africans to the colonists in Jamestown
  • Slavery will soon be worldwide

    Slavery developed in all thirteen colonies
  • Slavery is cruel

    In 1642, Virginia passed laws to stop people from helping enslaved persons.