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Period: to
Cashing in on Crops
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Tobacco became a cash crop in Virginia
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Twenty Africans were sold in Jamestown to work in the fields
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Maryland passed a law that made slavery illegal
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Virginia and Maryland had the largest populations of enslaved persons in the colonies
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Enslaved persons made up 22 percent of the population of Virginia and Maryland.
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Virginia law made all enslaved persons property.
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More than twice as many Africans arrive in colonial America between 1700 and 1710 than in all of the 1600s.
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31 percent of Marylanders were enslaved people.
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During this time, Virginia and Maryland grew more than 100 million pounds of tobacco a year.