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Drive through eastern North Carolina in late summer and you will still see it: wide green fields of tobacco, the broad leaves drooping in the heat, curing barns sitting at the edge of the rows

The shift to tobacco as a staple crop triggered the demographic shift in Virginia, as articulated by two scholars of the era: 3 the economic reason for slavery in Virginia was a desire for low-cost labor to grow tobacco Source: National Park Service, African American Heritage and Ethnography Intellectually, a "tobacco mentality" affected the wealthy plantation owners in Tidewater

BAT ultimately divested the majority of these other interests

The increasing role of tobacco as a cash crop led to a shift in the labor force that would shape American life and politics up through the Civil war

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