Slavery In Virginia

The institution of slavery here in Virginia is very unique compared to the other colonies, because we actually need slaves here, unlike the New England, etc. were the slaves only do domestic work and some minor agricultural work, the slaves here are making money for us. Without these slaves, the economy will collapse and I will lose all my wealth, and I cannot let that happen. Tobacco requires a lot of labor, and time, and that’s what we need the slaves for. We settle here in search for gold, but after a lot searching and observation of the place, were came to a conclusion that there is no gold here, and we had to find a way to make money. We quickly realized that the one crop that can be grown here and make money from it was tobacco, and the Native Americans were already doing it, so we use much help as we can get from them, but it was not enough. We needed a much bigger labor force, other wise ill economy will collapse, the tobaccos will dry up in the plantations, and we will lose everything, so we moved to the poor white folks that wanted to come over here from Europe. We helped the come over, and they have to serve us for a give period of time, and then we will set them free. …show more content…
So we started getting black people from Africa, and they would serve for there given period, and then free. I had quite a lot of them working for me. Once they were freed, a lot of the would buy land, and be part of the political process. But there presence started worrying a lot of us, because we knew that once a lot of the became free, there will be a lot of economic competition, and we did not want that to happen, so instead of freeing them, Africans now have to serve for life. I mean it makes sense; if there are a lot of free black people than us the white folks, they can easily manipulate the