Tobacco changed Virginia because tobacco penetrated the social, political, and economic life of the colony. Ownership of a large tobacco plantation could take one up the social ladder; many of the men responsible for the welfare of the colony were planters, and everything could be paid for in tobacco.
Link is https://www.accessgenealogy.com/virginia/tobacco-in-colonial-virginia.htm
Well, I’m sure that’s not true… did anything happen to make you feel that way?
