History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0317 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Tobacco Saves the Colony
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The idea
Virginia stabilised on tobacco, exported from sixteen fourteen, which the anchor says saved the colony from ruin.
In practice
Clearing, planting, curing in barns and packing in hogsheads, every stage labour-intensive.
Where people slip
The crop did not reward capital so much as labour, and the colony had almost none of it.
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