Green Leaf and Gold: Tobacco in North Carolina

40 pp. "Jerome Brooks presents a concise history of tobacco from the days of Sir Walter Raleigh when the plant was considered a novelty, to cultivation for export in the colonial period, to cultivation for domestic use during the antebellum period, to the manufacturing of tobacco products in the late nineteenth century, to the industrialization and commercialization of tobacco in the twentieth century. Fifteen illustrations enhance the text."