the most important crop in the virginia colony was tobacco The dried leaves of the
The dried leaves of the tobacco plant became the major cash crop in colonial Virginia in 1612. Tobacco cultivation was an extremely labor intensive process. Insects were a constant nuisance; enslaved people not Planting Profits: How tobacco saved the Jamestown colony Morning Ag Clips 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 and Staple Agriculture The Project Gutenberg eBook of Tobacco in Colonial Virginia, by Melvin Herndon Tobacco Cultivation in 17th Century Virginia
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