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Chapter 4 As the seventeenth century went on, encampments of the colonist gave way to settlement. -The Unhealthy Chesapeake Chesapeake settlers had very brutal and nasty short lives. Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid cut ten years off of the life expectancy. Newcomers from England didn't rarely live past twenty years old. Most marriages did not get passed seven years because spouses died. -The Tobacco Economy Settlers planted tobacco to sell because they grew corn to eat. Ships hauled 1.5 million pounds of tobacco by the 1930's. They hauled 40 million pounds of tobacco by the year end. Indentured servants led a hard but hopeful life on the Chesapeake settlement. Misbehaving servants get punished with extreme torture. -Frustrated Freeman and Bacon's Rebellion. By the late seventeenth century, Freeman was all over the Chesapeake region. The planters were worried because of the Bachelors numbers increasing. Bacon died of disease while the Virginian civil war was going on. The distant English King could scarcely imagine the deaths of passion and fear. Laborers looked toward Africa to have new tobacco customers. -Colonial Slavery 10 million Africans were carried in chairs to the New World. This took about three centuries to transport all of them. Only about 400,000 if them ended up in North America. The rest of the vast numbers arrived after 1700. Cargoes were hauled yo Spanish South Americas and Portugal. The rest were taken to sugar-rich West Indies. -Africans In America Slave life was very severe in the farther down south. The climate was hostile to health, and the labor was life-draining. The wildly scattered South Carolina rice and indigo plantations were lovely hells. Gangs of mostly Africans were toiled and punished there. Only fresh parts could sustain the slave population. Blacks in the tobacco region had easier lives. In 1720-Female Population rose. -The New England Family The south carried a lot more disease than the north did. Early marriage encouraged the booming birth rate.