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. / A Thesis Submitted to the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts. / Fall Semester, 2003. / November 11, 2003. / Cigar Wrapper, Shade Tobacco, Gadsden County, Cigars / Includes bibliographical references. / Elna Green, Professor Directing Thesis; Bruce Grindal, Committee Member; Barney Warf, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_180523 |
| Contributors | Pando, Robert T. (authoraut), Green, Elna (professor directing thesis), Grindal, Bruce (committee member), Warf, Barney (committee member), Interdisciplinary Program in Social Science (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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