. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. tliey met Lord Delaware, the new governor,with plenty of supplies and one hundred and fifty men, andgladly returned with them to begin anew the settlement. From that time the colony began to prosper. Youngwomen were sent over to become wives of the colonists, andreal homes made men better satisfied to live away fromEngland. Each settler whowanted a wife had to pay thecost of her passage from Eng-land. At first this was ahundred pounds of tobacco,butit soon increased to one hun-dred and fifty pounds. Since tobacco was used
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. tliey met Lord Delaware, the new governor,with plenty of supplies and one hundred and fifty men, andgladly returned with them to begin anew the settlement. From that time the colony began to prosper. Youngwomen were sent over to become wives of the colonists, andreal homes made men better satisfied to live away fromEngland. Each settler whowanted a wife had to pay thecost of her passage from Eng-land. At first this was ahundred pounds of tobacco,butit soon increased to one hun-dred and fifty pounds. Since tobacco was used formoney, and also brought agood price in England, wherethe people had grown fondof it, its cultivation becamevery profitable. So the set-tlers raised it almost every-where on the plantations,which lined both banks of theJames for more than a hun- ^^^^ ^ ^^°^ Emigrants. dred miles, until the council ordered more attention paid toraising food for the settlers. In August, 1619, a Dutch trading vessel brought twentynegroes from Africa to Jamestown. The settlers bought. To HAZENS ELElVrENTARY niSTORY. LESSON.—In 1619, negroes were brought to Jamestown and sold asclaves. At first the London Company governed the colony, but, in 1619,it began to make its ow^n law^s. tliem, uiid found them so helpful in raising tobacco that otherswere brought in, and slavery became a part of our history. Although the charter granted to the Virginia colonypromised the people the same liljerties and franchises that theywould have had in England, they were, for a long time, gov-
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