After 1700, there was continued conflict with natives east of the Alleghenies, especially in the French and Indian War (1754–1763), when the tribes were allied with the French. Warfare with the Virginia Indian nations had been an ongoing factor during the 17th century. While the plantations thrived because of the high demand for tobacco, most white settlers would raise their families on subsistence farms. By 1750, the primary cultivators of the cash crop were West African slaves. After 1662, the colony turned black slavery into a hereditary racial caste. It was chiefly grown on plantations, using primarily slaves for the intensive hand labor involved. Soon thereafter during the early 1600s, tobacco emerged as a profitable export. In 1610, survivors would abandon Jamestown, although they returned after meeting a resupply convoy in the James River. The famine during the harsh winter of 1609 forced the colonists to eat leather from their clothes and boots, and resort to cannibalism. The Virginia Company colony was looking for gold and spices, and land to grow crops, however they would find no fortunes in the area, and struggled to maintain a food supply. In 1607, English colonization began in Virginia with Jamestown, which would become the first permanent English settlement in North America. The written History of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 1500s, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt.

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