jamestown tobacco cash crop in Virginia Cultivating Tobacco, Jamestown, 1615 |

Cultivating Tobacco, Jamestown, 1615 Stock Image Science Source Images Tobacco had been cultivated and smoked by Native Americans for centuries before Christopher Columbus introduced it to Europe. Jane Pauley reports on how growing tobacco became Americas first cash The dried leaves of the tobacco plant became the major cash crop in colonial Virginia in 1612. Tobacco cultivation was an extremely labor intensive process. Insects were a constant nuisance; enslaved people not Tobacco and Staple Agriculture

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