4 Chronology of slavery in colonial North America and the United States, 1526–1860

West Africa) and within 60 years will be exporting 20 million pounds of rice annually.

1670 Virginia – where tobacco exports to England have increased to 14 million pounds from three million pounds 30 years earlier (and will soon rise to 20 million) – has an estimated 2,000 slaves; slaves are also working in furs, hides, grain, as sailors and as domestic servants; slaves remain under 5% of the colony’s total population.