In 1622 with the labor of 25 African bodies the colonist were able to increase their tobacco exports to 60,000 pounds.
Four years later with those same 25 African laborers the increase was 300,000 pounds. Damn, those Negroes were working hard!
Move to 1775, the year before the Revolutionary War the Virginian colonist increased the enslaved population from 25 to 210,000 humans in perpetual bondage…on the dawn of the War for Freedom….does anyone see the irony……And what kind of yield did those 210,000 unpaid, unthanked, unappreciated, unnamed African slaves produce in Virginia tobacco exports…..100,000,000 pounds of tobacco.
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