
During the transatlantic slave trade, thousands of enslaved Igbo people came directly to Virginia via shipping ports in Calabar and Bonny. Igboland was the principal source of the labour force in the tobacco plantation in Virginia in 1740s. At a point, they outnumbered and eventually replaced their Irish indentured counterparts.
The Igbo labourers produced the tobacco that became the mainstay of the Virginian economy.
The Igbo also provided the labour in the Black Belt that made cotton king. And they continued to contribute to nation building and the to the development of the frontier culture in the United States...
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