Robert Remini
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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35.
Servants and Slaves
Most of the laborers were white men and women who were bound to service for terms of years.
These were called servants.
Some of them were poor persons who sold their labor to pay for their passage to Virginia.
Others were unfortunate men and women and even children who were stolen from their families and sold to the colonists.
Still, others were criminals whom King James sent over to the colony because that was the cheapest thing to do with them.
In 1619, the first Negro slaves were brought to Virginia by a Dutch vessel.
The Virginians bought them all, only 20 in number.
But the planters preferred white laborers.
It was not until more than 25 years had passed away that the slaves really became numerous enough to make much difference in the life of the colony.
36.
The First American Legislature.
1619.
The men who first formed the Virginia Company had long since lost interest in it.
Other men had taken their place.
These latter were mostly Puritans, or were the friends and workers with the Puritans.
The best known of them was Sir Edward Sandys, the playmate of William Brewster, one of the Pilgrim Fathers.
Sandys and his friends sent Sir George Yeardley to Virginia as governor.
They ordered him to summon an assembly to be made up of representatives chosen by the freemen of the colony.
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