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  2. Tobacco in the American colonies - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Tobacco colonies - Wikipedia

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    As the populations of the tobacco colonies increased, so did tobacco exports to England. Between 1622 and 1628, tobacco imports from the tobacco colonies to England increased from 60,000 pounds to 500,000 pounds. By 1639, the figure had reached 1,500,000 pounds, and by the late 1600s, it was up to more than 20,000,000 pounds per year. [5]

  4. Colonial South and the Chesapeake - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. Tobacco and Slaves - Wikipedia

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    Tobacco and Slaves is a neo-Marxist [2] study that explains the creation of a racial caste system in the tobacco-growing regions of Maryland and Virginia and the origins of southern slave society. Kulikoff uses statistics compiled from colonial court and church records, tobacco sales, and land surveys to conclude that economic, political, and ...

  6. Tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Tobacco farming, once integral to Southern and Tennessee ...

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    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 ...

  9. Southern Colonies - Wikipedia

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    Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860 (2 vol. 1933) vol 1 online; .also see vol 2 online; Hubbell, Jay B. The South in American Literature, 1607–1900 (Duke UP, 1973) online; Kulikoff, Allan. Tobacco and slaves: The development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 (UNC Press Books, 2012) online.