A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . AN OLD-TIME NEGKO CABIN. History of Virginia and Virginians. 165 having slaves imported into their country. They sentone hundred and eleven petitions to the king and Parlia-ment of England to stop the introduction of slaves, butthat government found it too profitable a business to con-sent to its extinction. The Slave Trade Encouraged by England.—Sir JohnHawkins, one of the most noted of English sea captains,was so successful in the business of kidnapping slavesand selling them to the Spaniards that Queen Elizabeth,. GOING TO TOWN. who i
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . AN OLD-TIME NEGKO CABIN. History of Virginia and Virginians. 165 having slaves imported into their country. They sentone hundred and eleven petitions to the king and Parlia-ment of England to stop the introduction of slaves, butthat government found it too profitable a business to con-sent to its extinction. The Slave Trade Encouraged by England.—Sir JohnHawkins, one of the most noted of English sea captains,was so successful in the business of kidnapping slavesand selling them to the Spaniards that Queen Elizabeth,. GOING TO TOWN. who is said to have shared in his profits, gave him a negrotied or bound for a crest. If the slave trade had beenconducted by the Dutch alone, it would soon have beenstamped out; but, fostered and protected by the power ofthe English throne, it was no easy task to annihilate England and the Slave Trade.—By and by, the setltiers in New England, noting the large profits made inthe buying and selling of slaves by the English and theDutch, determined to have a share in the business soil of their section was generally unproductive, and 166 History of Virginia and Virginians. its seasons short and unfruitful. There was little moneyto be made in agriculture, and little need of slaves to cul-tivate the crops. But the thrifty people who inhabitedthat region were not to be balked of their profits. Ifthey had no use for the negros services, they knew a landwhere he might be profitably employed, and so they
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