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The British prized tobacco, for it was a way to display one's wealth to the public. Only those of high status could afford the new product. As tobacco's popularity grew, it became the savior of the colonies. Due to the rough climate, the colonies were not able to produce other crops necessary for survival.
Menard, Russell R. "The tobacco industry in the Chesapeake colonies, 1617-1730: An interpretation." in The Atlantic Slave Trade (Routledge, 2022) pp. 377-445. Ragsdale, Bruce A. "George Washington, the British tobacco trade, and economic opportunity in prerevolutionary Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 97.2 (1989): 132-162.
Cogswell, Thomas. "‘In the Power of the State’: Mr Anys's Project and the Tobacco Colonies, 1626–1628". English Historical Review 123.500 (2008): 35-64; a failed scheme for a transatlantic monopoly of Virginian and Bermudan tobacco. Goodman, Jordan. Wholly Built Upon Smoke" Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence. London: Routledge ...
James City was a modest farm area with multiple small plantations containing 250 acres of land. The chief crop was tobacco, which remained the cornerstone of Virginia economy for 200 years. [7] James City, itself, sold 60,000 pounds of tobacco to England by 1622. During the early 1620s, tobacco sold for approximately £200-£1,000 for single ...
[3] [4] They most likely worked in the tobacco fields, under a system of race-based indentured servitude. [5] [6] The modern conception of slavery in the British colonies was formalized in 1640, and fully entrenched in Virginia by 1660. [7] In 1676, Jamestown was deliberately burned during Bacon's Rebellion, though it was rebuilt.
The colony struggled for five years after its establishment at Jamestown in 1607. Finally, a profitable export crop was identified through the efforts of colonist John Rolfe. After 1612, a sweet form of tobacco became the largest export crop, customarily shipped in large hogsheads.
Fairfield plantation was a historic tobacco plantation from 17th century Colony of Virginia, owned by the Burwell family of Virginia from 1642 to 1787. The house was destroyed in 1897 due to fire. It is now an archaeological site that also includes slave quarters, a large formal garden, and the Burwell family cemetery.
The colonies exported naval stores, fur, lumber and tobacco to Britain, and food for the British sugar plantations in the Caribbean. The culture of the Southern and Chesapeake Colonies was different from that of the Northern and Middle Colonies and from that of their common origin in the Kingdom of Great Britain .