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By Eldred E. Prince,Robert R. Simpson

The first complete background of brilliant Leaf tobacco tradition of any country to seem in fifty years, this publication explores tobacco's impact in South Carolina from its beginnings within the colonial interval to its heyday on the flip of the century, the effect of the melancholy, the recent Deal, and global struggle II, and directly to present-day controversies approximately overall healthiness hazards because of smoking.

The booklet examines the tobacco growers' fight opposed to the monopolistic practices of brands, explains the mess ups of the cooperative reform circulate and the Hoover administration's farm rules, and describes how Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal rescued southern agriculture from the melancholy and cast a long-lasting and winning partnership among tobacco farmers and executive. The technological revolutions of the post-World battle II period and next tobacco economic system hardships as a result of more and more detrimental public notion of tobacco use also are highlighted.The booklet info the jobs and explanations of key contributors within the improvement of tobacco tradition, together with firsthand reports comparable through farmers and warehousemen, and gives educated speculations at the way forward for tobacco tradition. Long Green permits readers to raised comprehend the entire value of this money crop within the heritage and financial system of South Carolina and the yankee South.

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