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Tobacco
Tobacco was the first cash crop in the English Colonies in America. The first to grow tobacco was John Rolfe of Jamestown. He brought tobacco seeds he had acquired in Trinidad . By 1612, he had harvested his initial crop to be exported to Europe.
Sugarcane was not a major cash crop in the South. Some of the major cash crops were cotton and tobacco.
Tobacco