Growing Tobacco in Early America

[prairiedruid]

Growing tobacco in early America.
20 min youtube video from a historical reenactor about tobacco in George Washington's time. I guess Martha really liked her snuff.

 

[jabo]

Gotta watch this. And then : THE GREAT TOBACCO REVOLT OF 2017. WE'RE HEADED FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS. Please PM me if you would like to bunker your cellar ! ;-)

 

[mawnansmiff]

Thanks so much for posting that Prairiedruid, a fine way to spend twenty minutes of a lazy afternoon :clap:
Regards,
Jay.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Not wanting to hijack your thread Prairiedruid, but watching that film got me to look at others. One in particular was about growing and selling in North Carolina and was most interesting.
It's quite amazing too how labour intensive the entire process is.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=VEI4BYp6f8U
Regards,
Jay.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Jay-
That URL isn't working for me. Could it be because it's for UK Youtube and not US?

 

[mawnansmiff]

Not a clue I'm afraid John, but I did copy the below from the page...
Harvesting and selling tobacco

LEARN NC 73,245 views
...hope that helps ::
Regards,
Jay.

 

[Chasing Embers]

How about growing tobacco in primitive America?
http://westerndigs.org/12000-year-old-camp-found-in-utah-may-have-experts-adjusting-their-theories-archaeologist-says/

 

[pancakejake]

I'll have to watch that one later on tonight. I'm reading a biography of George Washington. I found it interesting that early on on Mount Vernon he was planting tobacco but he thought his wholesaling agent in London was not being honest with pricing and payments and generally not trying very hard. This coupled with the fact that tobacco is a VERY labor intensive crop led him to switch to growing small grains instead. He could sell the grains locally and now had a bunch of labor freed up for things like distilling and construction.

 

[woodsroad]

John and Jay,

The link worked for me on my phone. It's a Youtube mobile site link, so it may not work well on the desktop.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Aha! That's it. The following URL I got by going to Youtube and pasting in Jay's description, and it works on the laptop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEI4BYp6f8U
The URL below is copied from Jay's first post, and now the differences are apparent.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=VEI4BYp6f8U

 

[jvnshr]

Enjoyed watching it, thanks for sharing.