He built a plantation about 30 miles upstream ... around her death are considered suspicious by others. Though Jamestown and the Virginia Colony that grew from it had found financial success ...

1619 - A mystery ship drops anchor at Jamestown. Somewhere on the high ... and an African -- run away from a Virginia plantation. Captured and returned to Virginia, they are tried for breaking ...

1619: A Dutch ship brings the first permanent African settlers to Jamestown. Africans soon are put to work on tobacco plantations. 1663: A Virginia court decides that a child born to a slave ...