After the settlers landed on Jamestown Island in the spring of 1607, they quickly began searching for ways to make a fortune both for themselves and the Company. The gold and jewels they had hoped to find were nonexistent. Harvesting raw materials like fish, lumber and furs was difficult.

2024年8月26日 · In the first year of fighting, tobacco production in Virginia dropped to less than 25 percent of its annual prewar output. In 1611 Rolfe, known as “an ardent smoker,” decided to experiment with cultivating tobacco in Jamestown.

2021年2月12日 · 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).

Native Americans used tobacco for thousands of years before Columbus encountered it during his 1492 voyage to North America. By the end of the 16th century, its consumption had spread worldwide. It became inextricably linked with the Jamestown story when John Rolfe brought sweet South American tobacco seeds to the colony in 1610.

Tobacco was a completely new agricultural product to most, if not all, of the English settlers at Jamestown. There were no centuries of vast experience in growing, curing, and marketing to …

By 1635 tobacco had almost disappeared in the immediate vicinity of Jamestown, as many of the planters moved to new land along the south bank of the York River.

2019年8月14日 · Despite its drawbacks as a cash crop, tobacco cultivation had a number of advantages for both the wealthy plantation owner and the ordinary farmer. As David O. Percy points out in his The Production of Tobacco Along the Colonial Potomac, tobacco was grown:

2020年4月14日 · Before John Rolfe brought his famous tobacco seeds to Jamestown, the colony was struggling. Historians refer to this as “The Starving Time”. During the winter of 1609-1610, there was food shortage and broken leadership.

2017年9月15日 · The Jamestown colonists found a new way to make money for The Virginia Company: tobacco. The demand for tobacco eventually became so great, that the colonists turned to enslaved Africans as a...

Nicotiana tabacum In 1612, John Rolfe arrived in Jamestown to find the colonists there struggling and starving. [2] He had brought with him a new species of tobacco known as Nicotiana tabacum. [3] This species was preferable to the native Nicotiana rustica, which was harsher. [4]