who helped develop tobacco as a cash crop The dried leaves of the plant became the major in colonial Virginia in 1612. Tobacco cultivation was an extremely labor-intensive process. Insects were constant nuisance; enslaved people not Theres no doubt about it Tobacco and Staple Agriculture

Tobacco and Staple Agriculture This young man is helping out with his family's tobacco crop. Amish farmers in Lancaster County (some of them, not all) raise tobacco to supplement dairy income. Photo: Don Shenk A Daily John Rolfe enjoyed smoking tobacco but didn't like the fact that English customers had to buy it from the Spanish, who were exporting it from their American colonies. Virginia Tobacco & Colonial American Economy World History Encyclopedia Tobacco had been cultivated and smoked by Native Americans for centuries before Christopher Columbus introduced it to Europe. Jane Pauley reports on how growing tobacco became America's first cash crop and Tobacco is a cash crop

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