Old Photograph Flockhart Tobacconists Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Flockhart Tobacconists in Glasgow, Scotland. Tobacco is said to have been introduced into Britain in 1586; it was placed under a duty of 2d. a pound in Queen Elizabeth's reign. The duty on Virginian tobacco was raised to 6s. 10d. by King James I. Tobacco cultivation and exports formed an essential component of the American colonial economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tobacco plantations were distinct from other cash crops in terms of agricultural demands, trade, slave labor, and plantation culture. Many influential American revolutionaries, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, owned tobacco plantations, and were financially devastated by debt to British tobacco merchants shortly before the American Revolution.



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