CHAPTER III.

TOBACCO IN AMERICA.

First General Planter -- State of the Colony -- Conditions of Raising Tobacco -- Tobacco Fields, 1620 -- Increase of Tobacco-Growing -- Restriction of Tobacco-Growing -- Tobacco used as Money -- King James opposes Tobacco-Growing -- Buying Wives with Tobacco -- Foreign Tobacco Prohibited -- King Charles on Tobacco -- King Charles as a Tobacco Merchant -- Tobacco Taxed -- Planting in Maryland -- Negro Labor -- Competition -- Growing Suckers -- Virginia Lands -- Picture of Early Planters -- Large Plantations -- Getting to Market -- Virginia Plant-Bed -- Maryland Plant-Bed -- Tobacco Growing in New York and Louisiana -- New England Tobacco -- Commercial Value of Tobacco -- Tobacco a Blessing...................................................... 47