Virginia had many plantations, like most of the southern states. The plantation owners used slaves to farm their land. When the cotton gin was created and other agricultural machines, the need for slaves increased because the machines refined cotton very fast. They needed more slaves to pick cotton faster to get more profit
Because the slaves were virgins like you ha ha "tag your it"
He own a plantation and was from Virginia. He owned slaves. For him, the issue was States rights for the ability to own slaves and Virginia was confederate so he went with his state.
Western Virginia was very different from Virginia they were against slavery ,on October 16, john brown led araid at Harper ferry and some followers captured the united states arsenal, Harper ferry is were they make guns an stored them .Brown planned on giving these guns to the slaves in Virginia and Maryland so the slaves will have freedom. so Virginia had no slaves and Virginia was mad and Virginia and Western was spited up and it became west Virginia and was 35th state.:)
why are there so many slaves?
Virginia and Maryland
The first African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619.
More than 300 slaves lived on Mt. Vernon, Washington's Virginia plantation home.
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In virginia, most people had slaves. They had them all through the war. Virginia had one of the highest slave populations.
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