Long before the establishment of Jamestown, English captains had made ... By 1640, however, with the growth of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and the corresponding need for labor, the views ...

He built a plantation about 30 miles upstream from Jamestown, and for the first time, the colony was turning a profit. While ...

1619: A Dutch ship brings the first permanent African settlers to Jamestown. Africans soon are put to work on tobacco plantations. 1663: A Virginia court decides that a child born to a slave ...