a.

This image shows a slave owner watching his slaves from the porch as they work on his

land. The slaves seem to be farming tobacco on a plot of land in one of the first early

colonies of Jamestown. Although the picture is black and white, it can be assumed that

the slaves are African American because they were widely used as slaves, especially for

large scale crop cultivation.

b.

An economic development in this period is the rise of tobacco. Tobacco was growing in

popularity in England because of its rise in the West Indies and it was a distinct cash crop

of Virginia. The south commonly relied on large scale production of tobacco for profit as

it grew in recognition. The artist showed these crops because it was the primary crop of

the time.

c.

The slaves are evidence of the time period because slaves were becoming very prevalent

during the period of 1615. Land owners at this time would accumulate a good amount of

slaves to different jobs around their land but the slaves were mostly put to work with

cultivating and caring for crops which was mostly tobacco. The place setting is shown

through the slaves as well because the southern colonies used slaves more than the

middle colonies because of their concentration on large scale production of crops.