There was a need for agricultural workers.
Tobacco was in Hugh demand in Europe and England. So Virginia developer the commodity crop of Tabasco and needed labor to tend to the crop. This led to an increase in the importation of African Slaves into the Colony.
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They had both protested/sided against their government
