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What Role Did Tobacco Farming Play In Everyday Life

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The image portrays what appears to be a tobacco farm being taken care of by indentured servants or life-long purchased slaves. In the early days of America slaves played a monumental role in everyday life. Anybody of color, or other race than white was regarded as less than human, which led to uprising and riots between the north and south. This unfortunate turn of events would lead to what would be a full out civil war among northern and southern America. The men shown in the image most likely were southerners, these men in the south owned the highest amount of slaves in the country, many shipped in from other countries to be sold off to rich plantation owners in the south. Sadly unlike the Europeans who came originally, the new life in America wasn't great for most who were shipped by force. Often, any person of color would either die in the fowl living conditions with little food and mediocre medical care or trying to escape their fatal life. …show more content…

In the days when slavery was booming and tobacco farming was at its peak, the foundations of America's economy was being built. tobacco farms were the number one producing product in America at the time, it was easy and with the help of the Native American Indians they had been taught to properly grow them. Next to tobacco sales the slave market was among the most frequent and requested transactions in the time period.These relations between purchased slaves and white colonial Americans consumed the trade market in the south. Pictured above is bread crumbs of a foundation being built for a developing economy, the many indentured/life long slaves working are accompanied by what appears to be the many owners and blooming businessmen of the

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