Date of Award
1970
Document Type
Thesis
Department
History
Abstract
The seventeenth century was the golden age of Virginia's Tidewater tobacco industry. The virgin soils had not yet been exploited by a careless agriculture. Before 1670, adventurous men had not planted west of the Fall Line, where superior tobacco land waited quietly. The shadow of chronic debt to his English factor had not yet fallen on the Virginia planter. Fortunes were still to be drawn from the rich earth; there was promise in the golden leaf for ambitious pioneers. The tobacco kingdom was young, and it was Spring in Tidewater.
Recommended Citation
Conover, Harold E., "Tobacco and soil relationships in Tidewater Virginia to 1670" (1970). Honors Theses. 1047.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/1047