Nicholas Andrew

By mwaddell

  • Tobacco

    IN 1612 John Rolfe began to grow tobacco in Virginia.

  • slaves

    In 1619 a dutch ship sold twenty Africans to the colonists in jamestown

  • Slavery

    enslaved persons were used to produce these cash crops

  • slaves

    any person could be fined 20 pounds of tobacco for each night he or she helped a runaway