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The most important cash crop in Colonial America was tobacco, first cultivated by the English at their Jamestown Colony of Virginia in 1610 CE by the merchant John Rolfe (l. 1585-1622 CE). Tobacco grew in the wild prior to this time and was...

The history of tobacco use in the Americas goes back over 1,000 years when natives of the region chewed or smoked the leaves of the plant now known as Nicotiana rustica (primarily in the north) and Nicotiana tabacum (mostly in the south...

The Parson's Cause was a legal and political controversy that arose in the British colony of Virginia in the early 1760s. In response to the royal veto of the Two Penny Act, a policy passed by Virginia's House of Burgesses, a young lawyer...

John Rolfe (l. 1585-1622 CE) was an English merchant and colonist of Jamestown best known as the husband of Pocahontas (l. c. 1596-1617 CE). He is also known, however, for his successful cultivation of tobacco in Virginia which established...

Tobacco field in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Tobacco Plantation, detail of a print by Richard H. Laurie, 1821 CE. Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland.

Tobacco Drying in Viñales, Cuba.

Tobacco pipe with case made of silver, deer antler, horn, and leather, from Southern Germany, c. 1740 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Tobacco is considered the most sacred of the Indigenous sacred medicines, used in virtually every ceremony as a means of connecting directly to the Creator. Native tobacco is used in ceremonies such as pipe ceremonies, non-smoke offerings...

Dried tobacco. Scenes from North Carolina tobacco country. Tobacco Farm Life Museum, Kenly, NC