John Rolfe

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1611 John Rolfe is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia.
1619 John Rolfe wrote of the incidental introduction of African slaves to Virginia from a passing ship, recording that "there came in a Dutch man-of-war that sold us twenty negars" on 31 August of that year.
2023 Smithsonian - Was the 1623 Poisoning of 200 Native Americans One of the Continent’s First War Crimes? English colonists claimed they wanted to make peace with the Powhatans, then offered them tainted wine
Thomas Rolfe
Varina Farms Plantation