Coach Pāṇini ®What is the backstory for how #JohnRolfe acquired South American #tobacco seeds?
marcasWhilst relations between the colonists and #Powhatan were cordial at first, conflicts gave rise to the #AngloPowhatanWars from 1609 onwards. During this time, #Matoaka was kidnapped and put on board an English ship. But it was here she met the widowed tobacco trader, #JohnRolfe.
After being baptised, she was disowned by her people and set sail with #Rolfe for #England. There she was introduced at the court of #JamesVI and I, but died at the age of twenty-one in #Gravesend, #Kent.
World History EncyclopediaThe most important cash crop in Colonial America was tobacco, first cultivated by the English at their Jamestown Colony of Virginia in 1610 CE by the merchant John Rolfe (l. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1681/tobacco--colonial-american-economy/ #History #EuropeanColonizationoftheAmericas #JamestownColonyofVirginia #JohnRolfe
The most important cash crop in Colonial America was tobacco, first cultivated by the English at their Jamestown Colony of Virginia in 1610 CE by the merchant John Rolfe (l. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1681/tobacco--colonial-american-economy/ #History #EuropeanColonizationoftheAmericas #JamestownColonyofVirginia #JohnRolfe