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Life in the Chesapeake: Virginia & Maryland
Tobacco plantation in Virginia
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Tobacco in Virginia
• John Rolfe introduces tobacco
• Wife Pocahontas teaches Indian method of cultivation
• Tobacco used for pleasure and medicine in England
• Economic salvation for Virginia
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1619• 1st Legislature set up in
Virginia
• 90 women sent to Jamestown
• Sold for 120 pounds of tobacco
• 1621 = women sold for 150 pounds of tobacco
• 20 African slaves arrive in North America
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Maryland• Proprietary
colony for Lord Baltimore & family
• Designed as a Catholic refuge
Early map of Maryland
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Indentured Servants• 3 – 7 years of
work• Not allowed to
marry• 1600 = 1,500 –
2,000 arrive in Virginia
• Mostly men• Irish families• American orphans
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Convicts• 50,000 convicts arrive
after 1718
• Virginia and Maryland get the most
• Property crime
• Did not receive benefits after servitude
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