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More than the infusion of population, colonist John Rolfe's discovery of a profitable cash crop-tobacco-sealed the fate of the Virginia colony. Economically, tobacco became to the Chesapeake what sugar was to West Indies and silver was to Mexico. However, tobacco required a great deal of labor to cultivate.
The growth of tobacco as a cash crop led to prosperity â but prosperity came with a heavy cost. The demand for tobacco quickly fueled the demand for a cheap labor force. Virtual Jamestown presents this page of 17th-century statutes related to indentured servants.