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  2. Tobacco in the American colonies - Wikipedia

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    Tobacco advertisement from 18th century London. Tobacco cultivation and exports formed an essential component of the American colonial economy. It was distinct from rice, wheat, cotton and other cash crops in terms of agricultural demands, trade, slave labor, and plantation culture. Many influential American revolutionaries, including Thomas ...

  3. Tobacco colonies - Wikipedia

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    The tobacco colonies were those that lined the sea-level coastal region of English North America known as Tidewater, extending from a small part of Delaware south through Maryland and Virginia into the Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina (the Albemarle Settlements). During the seventeenth century, the European demand for tobacco increased ...

  4. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century. The complex included everything from the main residence down to the pens for livestock. Until the abolition of slavery, such ...

  5. Tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Overall, it is estimated that 5.66 million adults in the US population reported current vaping 2.3%. From those users in the population, more than 2.21 million were current cigarette smokers (39.1%), more than 2.14 million were former smokers (37.9%), and more than 1.30 million were never smokers (23.1%). [9]

  6. Tobacco brides - Wikipedia

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    A tobacco bride (or "tobacco wife") is a descriptive name for a young woman that emigrated to Colonial Virginia to marry a settler. Following the settlement of the Jamestown, Virginia colony in the early 1600s there was a vast gender inequality, as most of those who left for Jamestown were men who were tasked with building and establishing the ...

  7. History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products. Most farms were geared toward subsistence production for ...

  8. Eliza Lucas - Wikipedia

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    Eliza Lucas. Elizabeth "Eliza" Pinckney (née Lucas; December 28, 1722 – May 27, 1793) [1] transformed agriculture in colonial South Carolina, where she developed indigo as one of its most important cash crops. Its cultivation and processing as dye produced one-third the total value of the colony's exports before the Revolutionary War.

  9. File:The Virginia Planters Best Tobacco, 18th century tobacco ...

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    Uploaded a work by Colonial Williamsburg from Tobacco Production, Virginia, 18th cent. Description A tobacco label, The Virginia Planters Best Tobacco, shows pipe-smoking white planter surrounded by slaves with long-handled hoes; one of latter shades the former from the sun with an umbrella.