What did most colonial families own that they probably could not have owned in Britain?
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In 1775, over two million people lived in the thirteen
American colonies and about 500,000 of them lived
in Virginia, the largest and most populous colony.
Many of these people were farmers or planters who
lived and worked on small farms of less than two
hundred acres. A relatively small number of
Virginians were wealthy planters or merchants, and
only about two percent of the population lived in
Virginia’s few small towns or cities like York, Norfolk, Richmond, Williamsburg, or Fredericksburg.
About 200,000 of the people living in Virginia were
enslaved African Americans most of whom worked in
tobacco fields for white masters.
A small farmer living in Virginia about the time of
the American Revolution was probably concerned
mainly with surviving and trying to improve the lives
of himself and his family. Whether he was a recent
immigrant from England, Scotland, Ireland, or Germany, or a native Virginian, he probably hoped to improve his
life by earning enough money to secure more land and nicer possessions.
How did planters earn a living?
To earn a living, planters grew some type of cash crop that could be sold for money or credit in order to buy needed
tools, livestock, and household goods which could not be produced on the farm. Before the American Revolution,
tobacco was the crop most Virginians grew and sold to
English and Scottish merchants. Toward the end of the
eighteenth century, however, many farmers began growing
grains like wheat, oats and corn. These crops took fewer
workers to grow, did not deplete the nutrients in the soil the
way tobacco did, and were in great demand in Europe and the
West Indies. Although many Virginians began growing
these grains, tobacco continued to be the colony’s largest
export crop.
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