Virginia planters relied heavily on their tobacco. According to Breen, “It is from this perspective that we begin to comprehend more fully the cultural and social context of Country ideas in prerevolutionary Tidewater Virginia. Tobacco and debt open windows onto an agrarian mentality, a pattern of values and personal perceptions that gave meaning to the experiences of everyday life” 1. Tobacco was valuable and crucial for the planters. To get a better understanding of how they had an amazing perception of the agrarian mentality, one must look on how important cultivation and marketing of the staple crop were important for the planters (Breen 2) 2. Cultivation was a huge factor in the farmers’ culture. The hard labor of farming tobacco crops
