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"A New Deal" or Book II of American Slavery, American Freedom, details how mortality rates around 1660 in the new Virginia colony began to go down. One historical question that arises from Book II is could the Virginia colony have grown at a faster rate if tobacco had not been a staple crop of sixteenth century Virginia. It can be noted that no one historian can ever detail how much the staple crop of tobacco meant to the early Virginia colony, but tobacco farming would certainly contribute to the early history of 1600's Virginia to a great extent.
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I feel that Virginia was literally saved by tobacco. Between 1607 and the early 1620's the colony was considered a failure that practically bankrupted the Virginia Company and caused King James I to take over the colony's charter. The 1620's were considered the boom years for Virginia when tobacco prices were high and profits helped facilitate the growth of the tobacco barons and thus, sparked the creation of Virginian society.
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