Zion

By mwaddell

  • cash crop

    Tobacco became a cash crop

  • slave labor

    A Dutch ship sold twenty Africans to the colonist in Jamestown this was the beginning of slave labor in colonies.

  • enslaved persons

    Virginia passed laws to stop people from helping runaway enslaved persons.

  • laws

    There are no marriages between races blacks could not own property. Slavery became a law in Maryland 1644.