Prosperity came at once in the form of good crops and rich prizes taken at sea.

Some of the latter contained cargoes of negro slaves, as was of course expected, who were distributed among the settlers to aid in raising tobacco; and when a certain Samuel Rishworth undertook to spread ideas of liberty among them he was officially admonished that religion had no concern with negro slavery and that his indiscretions must stop.

Slaves were imported so rapidly that the outnumbered whites became apprehensive of rebellion.

In the hope of promoting the importation of white labor, so greatly preferable from the public point of view, heavy impositions were laid upon the employment of negroes, but with no avail.

The apprehension of evils was promptly justified.