Tobacco Production, Virginia, 18th cent.


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NW0046

Source
Original in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (slide, courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation).

Comments
 A tobacco label, "The Virginia Planters Best Tobacco," shows pipe-smoking white planter surrounded by slaves with long-handled hoes; one of latter shades the former from the sun with an umbrella.