The reason for the British bringing slaves to Virginia was primarily b/c of tobacco..................

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Tobacco in Colonial Virginia - Encyclopedia Virginia

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Jan 29, 2013 - The tobacco that the first English settlers encountered in Virginia—the Virginia Indians' Nicotiana rustica—tasted dark and bitter to the English palate; it was John Rolfe who in 1612 obtained Spanish seeds, or Nicotiana tabacum, from the Orinoco River valley—seeds that, when planted in the relatively rich bottomland ...

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