HISTORY 7A Lecture Notes - Generation A, Ethnic Conflict
10 Oct 2013
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History lecture #6: origins of slavery in virginia and the origins of massachusetts". It was not planned by anyone to start importing and enslaving african people into. Tobacco was initially so profitable that it actively discouraged the owners of the land from using that land to grow anything but tobacco, so although the tobacco industry was booming, servants of the land were still starving. Tidewater", where colonists settled, was occupied by an established. Natives retaliated against the english colonists, killing off a substantial amount of people as well as livestock contributed to struggle with food as well. Virginian tobacco plantation owners realized that in order to make the most profit, man-labour was required. However, it was difficult to recruit such men because of the stories back in england about how it was hard it was to be living under a tobacco plantation over.
