What were the special characteristics of the population of Virginia in the seventeenth century?

There were a number of things about Virginia's population
that could be called "special characteristics."  Most of these characteristics came from
the fact that Virginia's economy was a plantation
economy.

Because of this, the people who came to Virginia
tended to come as individuals rather than as families.  Many of them came as forced
labor.  This meant that Virginia had a population with many single men and also many
African slaves.  At the top of this society was a small layer of rich
planters.

Thus, Virginia's plantation economy led to a
population that was disporportionately male, that had a significant number of blacks,
and which was very unequal in economic terms.