jancancook
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 |  Subject: Life in the colony was perilous, and many  Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:03 pm | |
| Life in the colony was perilous, and many died during the "starving time" in 1609 and the Anglo-Powhatan Wars, including the Indian massacre of 1622, which fostered the colonists' negative view of all tribes.[60][61] By 1624, only 3,400 of the 6,000 early settlers had survived.[62] However, European demand for tobacco fueled the arrival of more settlers and servants.[63] The headright system tried to solve the labor shortage by providing colonists with land for each indentured servant they transported to Virginia.[64] African workers were first imported in 1619, and their slavery was codified after a 1654 lawsuit over the servant John Casor.[65] Stephen Piercedemographics by neighborhood | |
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