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tobacco became a cash crop
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A Dutch ship sold twenty Africans to the colonies in Jamestown .This was the beginning of slave labor in the colonies .
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Virginia passed laws to stop people from helping runaway enslaved persons.
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The greatest number of blacks were in the colonies of Virginia (2000 blacks) and Maryland (1190 blacks)
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Virginia passed new laws
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22 percent of the people living in Virginia and Maryland were enslaves.
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31 percent of the people living in Maryland were enslaved persons.
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