Indentured servants & African Slaves
Slaves were the main labor source for large plantations.
Slaves, and later sharecroppers, provided the labor to grow and prepare tobacco as a cash crop.
There was a demand in labor and an increase in the Atlantic slave trading.
Tobacco plantations were distinct from other cash crops in terms of ... Contents. 1 Early cultivation; 2 Chesapeake Consignment System; 3 Slave ... Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730, which required inspectors to grade tobacco.
John Rolfe
yes.
Though the Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery in the states around the Great Lakes, the southern states approved of it. They did not want the northwestern states to become a competitor in the tobacco trade. At the time, tobacco cultivation was extremely labor intensive and was only profitable with slave labor.
The cultivation of tobacco and cotton
Cultivation of Tobacco
not at all
introduction of the cultivation of tobacco.
Southern states. It needs hot, humid climate to grow.