Tobacco was Virginia’s dominant cash crop for more than two centuries. Farmed initially by slaves, it was planted, tended, and dried by sharecroppers in Virginia’s Southern Piedmont for decades after slavery’s end. (Cook Collection, The Valentine)
Tobacco was Virginia’s dominant cash crop for more than two centuries. Farmed initially by slaves, it was planted, tended, and dried by sharecroppers in Virginia’s Southern Piedmont for decades after slavery’s end. (Cook Collection, The Valentine)