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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]
The Maryland Tobacco Inspection Act of 1747 was enacted in the colony of Maryland with the aim of improving the general quality of tobacco production and exports. Since tobacco was so widely used as commodity money , the act affected currency as well as the structure of tobacco farming and export. [ 1 ]
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
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
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.
Beaver Creek Plantation, under the ownership of George Hairston, was a large slave-holding tobacco plantation and the center of an empire in tobacco-growing and slave-trading built by the Hairston family, Scottish emigrants to Pennsylvania in the early 18th century.
From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (1992) online; Kulikoff, Allan. Tobacco and slaves: the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 (1986) online; McCusker, John J. ed. Economy of British America, 1607–1789 (1991), 540pp online; Russell, Howard. A Long Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming In New England ...