The tobacco plant developed into such a huge industry that it was used as currency, for taxes, and to buy people including slaves. Jamestown's growing tobacco industry led to the importation of ...

Only three years later, a staggering 55,000 pounds of tobacco reached English markets. Jamestown had found a way to survive: by growing and selling tobacco. But all these new tobacco fields ...

Tobacco had already been noted on the islands by Sea Venture castaway John Rolfe, famed for later marrying the Powhatan princess Pocahontas at Jamestown. It was planted by an earlier Spanish ...

Soon, he and other settlers were exporting large quantities of tobacco, England’s first cash crop in the future United States. He built a plantation about 30 miles upstream from Jamestown ...

in thy womb”) and wed Rolfe, with both natives and colonists present. Jamestown flourished thanks to Rolfe’s tobacco, and his marriage brought a short-lived peace to Virginia. It also provided ...

Only three years later, a staggering 55,000 pounds of tobacco reached English markets. Jamestown had found a way to survive: by growing and selling tobacco. But all these new tobacco fields ...