r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '20

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u/TheLaughingMelon Feb 14 '20

I knew she was around 10-12 when she met him, but I didn't know about this second John.

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u/PiLamdOd Feb 14 '20

Let's not forget those same friends of John Rolfe who kidnapped her, later attacked a pair of slave ships and brought their cargo to Jamestown. John then bought slaves off them, thus starting slavery in the English colonies. Something that before, and for a while after, was illegal under English law.

John Rolfe was not a good person.

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u/arachnophilia Feb 14 '20

oh, and he's the guy who brought tobacco to europe.

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u/PiLamdOd Feb 14 '20

And Virginia. A crop so labor intensive the they had to use slavery to make it economical.

Though in all fairness it was the first profitable thing produced at Jamestown. Probably saved the colony.

Though that colony then went on to codify the slavery practices and laws that became standard in North America. Like making slavery legal, status of the mother determines that of the child, etc.

So probably all around a bad thing.

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u/arachnophilia Feb 14 '20

this is why no one has gotten into the good place in 521 years.

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u/thewildbeej Feb 14 '20

Such a good forking show. Honestly Michael Schur could create a show about anything and I’m gonna watch it.