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Course: US history?>?Unit 2
Lesson 2: Chesapeake and Southern colonies- Early English settlements - Jamestown
- Jamestown - John Smith and Pocahontas
- Jamestown - the impact of tobacco
- Jamestown - life and labor in the Chesapeake
- Jamestown - Bacon's Rebellion
- Jamestown
- The West Indies and the Southern colonies
- Lesson summary: Chesapeake and Southern colonies
- Slavery in the British colonies
- Slavery in the British colonies
- Lesson summary: Slavery in the British colonies
- Slavery in the British colonies
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Jamestown
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Before the late 1600s, Virginia planters generally preferred white indentured servants to enslaved Africans as a source of labor because