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Lorenz, Stacy L. " 'To Do Justice to His Majesty, the Merchant and the Planter': Governor William Gooch and the Virginia Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 108 (2000): 345–392. online; McCusker, John J., and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America, 1607–1789 (University of North Carolina ...
The birthplace of John Rolfe, born c. 1585, remains unproven. At that time, the Spanish Empire held a virtual monopoly on the lucrative tobacco trade. Most Spanish colonies in the Americas were located in South America and the West Indies, which were more favorable to tobacco growth than their English counterparts (founded in the early 17th century, notably Jamestown in 1607).
Tobacco was Virginia's primary agricultural export throughout the colonial period. As time passed, the Virginia Colony steadily increased its tobacco production. However, between the years of 1740 and 1770, the few decades just prior to the American Revolution , the population of Virginia was increasing more quickly than its tobacco production ...
No tobacco could be imported except from Virginia, and a royal license that cost 15 pounds per year was required to sell it. To help the colonies, Charles II banned tobacco cultivation in England, but allowed it to be grown in herb gardens for medicinal purposes. [8] Tobacco was introduced elsewhere in continental Europe more easily.
The book Tobacco in Colonial Virginia ("The Sovereign Remedy") by Melvin Herndon [5] describes operation of the public warehouses as follows: . In 1730 the most comprehensive inspection bill ever introduced, passed the General Assembly.
The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860(Duke University Press, 1938), a major scholarly study. Robert, Joseph C. The Story of Tobacco in America (1959), by a scholar. online; Swanson, Drew A. A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South (Yale University Press, 2014) 360pp
However, he brought with him some seeds for several new strains of tobacco to experiment with. Using the sweeter strains, Rolfe is credited with being the first to commercially cultivate Nicotiana tabacum plants in North America in 1611; the export of this sweeter tobacco beginning in 1612 helped turn the Virginia Colony into a profitable venture.
The biggest trade breakthrough resulted after adventurer and colonist John Rolfe introduced several sweeter strains of tobacco [8] from the Caribbean. [9] These yielded a more appealing product than the harsh-tasting tobacco native to Virginia. [10]