USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Jamestown colonists found a new way to make money for The Virginia Company: tobacco. The demand for tobacco eventually became so great, that the colonists turned to enslaved Africans as a cheap source of labor for their plantations.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Virginia, these Africans were traded in exchange for supplies. Several days later, a second ship (Treasurer) arrived in Virginia with additional enslaved Africans. Both groups had been captured by English privateers from the Spanish slave ship San Juan Bautista.

Detailed explanation-3: -Despite this classification-and records which indicate that some of them did eventually obtain their freedom-it is clear that the Africans arriving at Point Comfort in 1619 were forced into servitude and that they fit the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ definition of enslaved peoples.

Detailed explanation-4: -The labor-intensive task that growing tobacco was called for a greater workforce that was first filled by indentured servants, and later slaves establishing slavery and the plantation style of agriculture the region would employ. The lucrative industry that tobacco became made Virginia prosperous.

Detailed explanation-5: -Colonist John Rolfe brought the seeds of sweeter tobacco to Jamestown in 1610, and from this microscopic item came the first major crop of the English Atlantic trade. By the end of the 17th century, hundreds of ships left England each year to transport tobacco leaves.