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Pando, R. T. (2003). Shrouded in Cheesecloth: The Demise of Shade Tobacco in Florida and Georgia. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-2308
For seventy-five years tobacco farmers and processors in a small district along the Florida-Georgia boundary produced shade tobacco, a specialty leaf used as the outer wrapper of premium cigars. Then, within a period of a few years, the market for the product vanished, and the industry vanished with it. This paper explores several reasons offered for the decline of the business and goes on to explore what happened to the farm owners and to their largely African American work force.
Cigar Wrapper, Shade Tobacco, Gadsden County, Cigars
Date of Defense
November 11, 2003.
Submitted Note
A Thesis Submitted to the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Advisory Committee
Elna Green, Professor Directing Thesis; Bruce Grindal, Committee Member; Barney Warf, Committee Member.
Publisher
Florida State University
Identifier
FSU_migr_etd-2308
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Pando, R. T. (2003). Shrouded in Cheesecloth: The Demise of Shade Tobacco in Florida and Georgia. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-2308
