The 1682 Virginia Plant-Cutting Riots | Primary Source from Historical Context

This episode of Historical Context examines thedesperate 1682 Virginia Plant-Cutting Riots, revealing how a collapsed tobacco market and a deaf royal government pushed impoverished colonists to violently destroy cash crops to inflate prices, ultimately prompting King Charles II to make agricultural sabotage a treasonous offense punishable by death.

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Fife and Drum byKevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3748-fife-and-drum

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