Tobacco, grown from seeds stolen from the Spanish, was the cash crop that saved the first permanent English settlement in the New World from extinction and ultimately came to dominate economic development in the Southern colonies. When John Rolfe arrived in Jamestown in 1610, starvation had thinned the settlers from 500 to 60. Rolfe was …
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