Creating industry was of utmost importance, allowing the colonies to be financially self-sufficient. In the first years of contact between Europeans and Native Americans, tobacco formed a valuable ...

Before coming to UW, she taught at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Dr. Morris’s current book project, “Cultivating Colonies: Tobacco and the Upstart Empires, 1580-1660,” considers how ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... driving agricultural economies based on tobacco in Virginia and Maryland and on rice along the coasts ...

Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650–1720. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-04693-8. OCLC 1012073027. Main, Gloria L. (2001). Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in ...