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Objective: To analyze the development of slave labor in Jamestown.

Objective: To analyze the development of slave labor in Jamestown. Settlement of Jamestown. The Virginia Company offered people willing to move to Jamestown a headright. Headright – 50 acres of land given to each person who could pay their own way to Virginia.

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Objective: To analyze the development of slave labor in Jamestown.

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  1. Objective: To analyze the development of slave labor in Jamestown.

  2. Settlement of Jamestown • The Virginia Company offered people willing to move to Jamestown a headright. Headright – 50 acres of land given to each person who could pay their own way to Virginia Official seal of the Virginia Company

  3. one acre = 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet In the photos above, the blue square represents one acre. 

  4. Cheerio, mates, how about working for the Virginia Company in the beautiful settlement of Jamestown! After all, only 66% of the people have died, so you have a 1 in 3 chance of surviving! Also, everyone that can pay for their own journey to Virginia will receive 50 acres of land, free!

  5. It sounds tempting, but we have a good life in England. Why should we give up the good life? And if we go, I will have to work! Yuck! Sounds great! Sign me up! After I receive my headright, I’ll finally have land of my own! Umm…I only have one problem. I’m broke and can’t pay for the journey. Too bad, you say? Darn!!

  6. The Virginia Company began to hire indentured servants. indentured servants –an individual who worked without wages for a specified number of years (usually 4 - 7) in exchange for transportation to the colonies.

  7. In 1619, the Virginia Company brought the first Africans to Jamestown as indentured servants. * Soon afterwards, Africans were used as slaves.

  8. Also in 1619, male settlers chose burgesses, or representatives, that met in an assembly called the Houseof Burgesses. • The House of Burgesses, along with the governor, made the laws for Jamestown, becoming the first representativegovernment in the English colonies . representative government – a government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

  9. Voting Rights • By 1670, only male property owners were allowed to vote. • In 1723, the right to vote was taken away from free black property owners as well.

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