Robert Roberts

  • Cash Crop

    Tobacco became a cash crop in Virginia in the year 1612
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    In Virginia passed laws to stop people from helping runaway enslaved person.
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    Slavery became law in maryland in 1664
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    The greatest number of blacks were in the colonies of Virgina 2000 blacks and maryland 1190 blacks
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    22 percent of the people living in maryland and Virginia were enslaved
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    31 percent of the people living in maryland were enslaved person