The civil war in 1850 unlearned the whole business of growing tobacco from his father. And his father also is entrepreneurial and pretty sure it recognized its great to grow tobacco, but it may be even better to sell the tobacco himself into process that it, too manufactured. He took a tobacco accreted on his own plantation in manufacturing any other slaves and sons figure out how to turn the tobacco plant into chewing tobacco. He was selling chewing tobacco before the civil war and after the civil war and during the period of reconstruction he had a sense continue earning his business. So his father was very entrepreneurial, figured out you are losing money in the tobacco trade over the course of the middle of the 19th century in the end of the civil war and beginning of reconstruction and taught his sons how to do the business. His sons, particularly r. J. Reynolds relies the price for transplantation was away from marketing possibilities. If you saw this tobacco come you couldnt do
Interwoven together since the 1950s. Host we have been talking him booktv with Michele Gillespie author of this book katharine and r. J. Reynolds partners of fortune in the making of the new south. Thank you for being with us. I think im doing a catchup. I read a lot of things that are not particularly new but i meant to read and not gotten them done so i have ticked off a little list. We start with two reallife rescue stories from world war ii. One im reading now is mitchell offs book first in time about some american aviators who crashed in greenland in the second world war. The rescue mission that went after them and another one that disappeared. They finally did eventually rescue these guys who lived for months and the tale of an airplane. The second part of it is about an expedition to go back and find the people that were lost trying to rescue the original crew. They located aircraft and all kinds of things so its a great story but in reading that and of course you read the book
About 40 minutes. Michelle gillespie who was r. J. Reynolds . He was selling chewing tobacco and became the best manufacturer in the country. How did he become that . Because he was the second assignment ousonof 16 children o planter before the civil war who owned over 50 slaves, the largest in Patrick County virginia. His father lived in virginia and so r. J. Reynolds was born in 1850 and learned the whole business of growing tobacco from his father, and his father was also entrepreneurial and pretty shrewd and recognized it is great to grow tobacco but it might be even better to sell it himself and to process it and manufacture it and so he took that and he created on his own plantation in manufacturing and he had a slave and his sons figure out how to turn the tobacco plant into chewing tobacco and so he was selling chewing tobacco before the civil war. And after the civil war and during the period of reconstruction he had his sons continue learning the business. So his father was v
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