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Tobacco Farm Tobacco Farm
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Tobacco Farm

Tobacco Farm
Chesapeake tobacco planters relied on imported labor to work the land. Indentured servants from England were the first to arrive, but stopped coming by 1700. Planters then turned to African slaves for labor.
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