A Depiction of

Pocahontas rescuing

Powhatan
John Smith.
The Jamestown colonists were heavily reliant
on the Powhatan Indians for supplies, but the
relationship was not always friendly.
 Captain John Smith
saves the colony
He that will not
WORK shall not EAT
Starving Time Winter
16091610

Only 60 of over
200 colonists
survived the winter.
 John Rolfe
Marries Pocahontas

T he Baptism of Pocahontas
by John Gadsby Chapman (1840)
Brown Gold
John Rolfe cultivated a
sweeter strain of tobacco that
became popular in England.
Cash Crop
Rolfes tobacco turned Virginia
into a profitable colony.
 The Popularization of Tobacco

"Raleigh's First Pipe in England"

an illustration included in Frederick William Fairholt's Tobacco, its history and associations.
A Labor Intensive Crop
 Virginias Labor Force
Indentured Servants African Slaves
Poor Europeans who agreed to As slavery became
a fixed term of forced labor in institutionalized in Virginia,
return for passage across the slaves became the property of
Atlantic their masters for life.
Indenture
Both sides get a copy
of a duplicate

contract
with a jagged edge that looks
like its been bitten.
 Virginias Labor Force
Indentured Servants African Slaves
Poor Europeans who agreed As slavery became
to a fixed term of forced labor institutionalized in Virginia,
in return for passage across slaves became the property of
the Atlantic their masters for life.
1619 Twenty African slaves
arrive in Virginia.
At first slaves were
treated as indentured
servants.
1670
 1670
In the last quarter of the 17 th

century, African slaves

became the dominant labor
force in Virginia.
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Bacons Rebellion
Bacons Rebellion
Frontier Settlers vs. Tidewater Planters

Bacons Rebellion
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Get out
of my
way!
1622 Indian Massacre
347 English Settlers Killed
= of the Colonists
Who Made This Engraving?

POV
Context
Audience
Purpose
Joint Stock Colony
The Virginia
Companys charter
was revoked in 1624.
Crown Colony
Virginia would be
governed as a royal
colony until it declared
independence in 1776.