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Jamestown
Jamestown was set up in 1607 and was very successful. -
Indentured servants
Indentured servants arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. -
Jamestown Brutal Storm
By 1610, a brutal storm left only 65 colonists. -
African Americas
First African Americans land in Jamestown, Virginia. -
Tobacco
In the 1680s, more than 30 million pounds of tobacco per year.