How did the growing of tobacco in Jamestown contribute to establishing slavery in the colonies?

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Irobson · Answer 1 · 2021-04-07T10:13:54+0000

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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.

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