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Front Porch

Front Porch Long before the South was the Sunbelt, or the Cotton Belt, or even Dixie, a big part of southeastern North America was tobacco country. Widely used for ritual and recreational purposes by Native Americans, Nicotiana tabacum ignited a massive craze for smoke when European explorers first brought it back from their travels in the sixteenth century. The Caribbean variety was especially popular, but when John Smith's Virginians could find no metallic gold to support themselves, it was the golden leaf that saved the Chesapeake colonies from extinction. Spreading from Virginia all over the Southeast and from there to Kentucky and beyond, the "sovran herbe" has flourished here ever since, shaping the people and their above: Blain Roberts's "A New Cure for Brightleaf Tobacco: The Origins of the Tobacco Queen during the Great Depression" reveals the creative contests--featuring young women--that were part of a broader effort to breathe new life into the ailing economy of the tobacco South. Photograph courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina. region like no other rival except perhaps the cotton plant and the longleaf pine tree. Without the bewitching sorcery of smoke, the South as we know it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Front Porch

Watson, Harry L.
Southern Cultures , Volume 12 (2) – Oct 5, 2006
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Long before the South was the Sunbelt, or the Cotton Belt, or even Dixie, a big part of southeastern North America was tobacco country. Widely used for ritual and recreational purposes by Native Americans, Nicotiana tabacum ignited a massive craze for smoke when European explorers first brought it back from their travels in the sixteenth century. The Caribbean variety was especially popular, but when John Smith's Virginians could find no metallic gold to support themselves, it was the golden leaf that saved the Chesapeake colonies from extinction. Spreading from Virginia all over the Southeast and from there to Kentucky and beyond, the "sovran herbe" has flourished here ever since, shaping the people and their above: Blain Roberts's "A New Cure for Brightleaf Tobacco: The Origins of the Tobacco Queen during the Great Depression" reveals the creative contests--featuring young women--that were part of a broader effort to breathe new life into the ailing economy of the tobacco South. Photograph courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina. region like no other rival except perhaps the cotton plant and the longleaf pine tree. Without the bewitching sorcery of smoke, the South as we know it

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Published: Oct 5, 2006

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