George Washington was a Burley/Virginia blend that I wouldn't consider an aromatic even though it had a molasses topping. I've always thought it was similar to Carter Hall.
Most did, resulting from a lack of affording it. Most of our snuff was sold to the British, and one of the problems at the outbreak of the war was that the British didn't allow us to sell it to anyone else - i.e. the French. The French had become some of the most prodigious snuffers in the world, and they even gifted Franklin and Jefferson diamond studded snuff boxes.
I was talking about C&D Founding Fathers. It's interesting and named after all of them.
So not much has really changed with our political leaders 'snorting' stimulants although I doubt it is snuff!One of my other passions is history, especially the history of everyday life.
The colonists snuffed, chewed, and smoked their own homegrown Virginia tobacco, which was not the Virginia bright leaf we know today.
And before Virginia bright leaf and Kentucky white burley and national brand advertising a hundred years after the Revolution tobacco was merely a popular vice, and a luxury enjoyed by those who could afford it.
Virtually all of the wealthy planter class that were our founding fathers likely carried snuff boxes.
Modern wooden matches were not known.
A clay or meerschaum pipe was for the hearth side or at lodge.
If nobody had a light, it would be time to snort up snuff, if you could spare the money.
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