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Article: Sir Williams Berkeley and the diversification of the Virginia economy
- Article from:
- The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Virginia Historical Society Autumn 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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BRITONS on both sides of the Atlantic promoted the economic diversification of Virginia throughout the seventeenth century. In doing so, they subscribed to the theory that cultivation of exotic staples would diminish the inhabitants' dependency on tobacco. Such an outcome would, in the words of an early promotional tract, turn the colony into "a fruitfull land, whence [the inhabitants] may furnish and provide this Kingdome, with all such necessities and defects. . . under which we labour, and are now enforced to buy, and receive at the curtesie of other Princes." Those views originated with the earliest advocates of English settlement in North America. They motivated the founders of ...
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