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''[[United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Virginia]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Virginia_Occupations|Occupations]]'' | ''[[United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Virginia]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Virginia_Occupations|Occupations]]'' | ||
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Tobacco was Virginia's major cash crop. It was shipped to Europe and the Caribbean during colonial times. Before the Civil War, plantation owners relied on slave labor to produce their crops.<br> | Tobacco was Virginia's major cash crop. It was shipped to Europe and the Caribbean during colonial times. Before the Civil War, plantation owners relied on slave labor to produce their crops.<br> | ||
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*Gill, Harold B. ''Apprentices of Virginia, 1623-1800''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Pub., 1989. {{FHL|577199|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 U2g}}.<br> | *Gill, Harold B. ''Apprentices of Virginia, 1623-1800''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Pub., 1989. {{FHL|577199|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 U2g}}.<br> | ||
=== Inventions and Patents === | |||
A.J. Morrison identified patents by Virginians from 1805 to 1824: | |||
*"Virginia Patents," ''The William and Mary Quarterly,'' 2nd Ser., Vol. 2, No. 3 (July 1922):149-156. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1916062 JSTOR] - free. | |||
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