Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tobacco was used as money by the Virginia settlers for years, and Rolfe was able to make his fortune in farming it for export at Varina Farms Plantation. When he left for England with his wife Pocahontas, a daughter of Chief Powhatan, he had become wealthy. Returning to Jamestown, following Pocahontas' death in England, Rolfe continued in his ...
These types of tobacco are used for cigarettes. In the northeast, darker, air-cured and sun-cured tobacco are grown. These types of tobacco are used for cigars, twists and dark-cigarettes. [14] Brazil's government has made attempts to reduce the production of tobacco but has not had a successful systematic anti-tobacco farming initiative.
History of agriculture in the southern United States to 1860 (1933) vol 2 pp 752-778 useful for statistics covering 1795 to 1860; online Hahn, Barbara. Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). examines how marketing, technology, and demand caused the dominance of Bright Flue ...
Spanish physician Francisco Fernandes became the first known European to introduce tobacco to the Old World on March 5, 1558. Christopher Columbus had known of the plant, and a member of his crew
Tobacco brought the colonists a large source of revenue that was used to pay taxes and fines, purchase slaves, and to purchase manufactured goods from England. [9] As the colonies grew, so did their production of tobacco. Slaves and indentured servants were brought into the colonies to participate in tobacco farming. [20]
Tobacco farming was once a common crop in the South with thousands of farms. The end of federal support and less demand has almost erased the crop. Tobacco farming, once integral to Southern and ...
The Story of Tobacco in America (UNC 1949) Robert, Joseph Clarke. "The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860 (Duke University Press, 1938). Tilley, Nannie May The Bright Tobacco Industry 1860–1929 ISBN 0-405-04728-2. online; Tilley, Nannie May The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (1985) online
Commercial tobacco farming began in the late eighteenth century and became an important component of the economy in countries like Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba. To maintain control over commercial tobacco production, the Spanish Crown designated specific zones for tobacco farming and established tobacco monopolies in larger countries.