who helped develop tobacco as a cash crop The dried leaves of the plant became the major in colonial Virginia in 1612. Tobacco cultivation was an extremely labor-intensive process. Insects were constant nuisance; enslaved people not Theres no doubt about it A Daily - John Rolfe

A Daily John Rolfe enjoyed smoking tobacco but didn't like the fact that English customers had to buy it from the Spanish, who were exporting it from their American colonies. Virginia 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 America's first cash crop and Cash Crop to Cash Cow: The History of Tobacco and Smoking in America [eBook] Tobacco and Staple Agriculture

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