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You and eight other young men follow Mr. Stone off the ship. He leads you to where his horse is tied. He will ride, but you will walk the four miles to his plantation. As you walk along the dirt road, you see acres and acres of big, leafy plants. You’ve seen plenty of fields in England, but never anything that looks like this.  “Tobacco,” says one of the men walking beside you. “It might be green, but here in Maryland it’s as good as gold.” You have a feeling that you’ll become very familiar with this new plant.

THE END  Next steps: 1. Watch this video to learn how tobacco was grown on plantations in Maryland and Virginia. 2. Choose one of the following assignments: a. You have been hired by the Virginia planter Bradford Smyth to recruit 30 indentured servants for his tobacco plantation. Create an advertisement to recruit indentured servants in London. b. Create a visual collage of push and pull factors that motivated people to become indentured servants in the colonies.

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