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In late 2009 reports were released by the London-based human-rights group Plan International, claiming that child labor was common on Malawi (producer of 1.8% of the world's tobacco [5]) tobacco farms. The organization interviewed 44 teens, who worked full-time on farms during the 2007-2008 growing season.
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
Tobacco farm in Norfolk County, summer 2012. The longstanding dominance of tobacco in the region has been on the wane in recent years. In 2002, politicians from the Ontario tobacco belt opposed several anti-smoking measures, causing a non-smoking group to give the Ontario government a failing grade at that time. [6]
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 ...
Oliver–Morton Farm is a historic tobacco farm complex and national historic district located near Oak Hill, Granville County, North Carolina. The Samuel V. Morton farmhouse was built about 1890, and is a two-story, three-bay, Italianate style I-house dwelling.
87,876 — tobacco farms in North Carolina in 1964, according to Matthew Vann, a tobacco researcher at N.C. State University, citing the ‘64 USDA Census of Agriculture.
Tobacco field with shade tents in East Windsor, Connecticut Field workers, all children, at the Goodrich Tobacco Farm near Gildersleeve, Connecticut, 1917. Connecticut shade tobacco is a tobacco grown under shade in the Connecticut River valley of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and southern Vermont. It is used primarily for binder and wrapper for ...
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