Tobacco Culture
Tobacco farmers had a sense of comfortablitity in their work and they took the craft very seriously. Breen uses rich vocabulary to define how important agriculture was in those days and the job was something that they took pride in. In the book, Tobacco Culture by Timothy H. Breen provides insight into the mind's of colonial tobacco farmers and he poses the reasons as to why so many were more radically republican and wanted to continue to self-govern.
Breen adds that planting and growing tobacco was the farmers' "measure of self, a source of meaningful social identity". Your purpose was your job and if that was passed down or in the family there is more pressure to stick with it and not let people down. 1
4. Breen, T. (2009) 2009. Tobacco Culture. Princeton University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/733853/tobacco-culture-the-mentality-of-the-great-tidewater-planters-on-the-eve-of-revolution-pdf.
1Clarke, Adam, James Hamilton, and Cornelius S. Van Winkle. A Dissertation on the Use and Abuse of Tobacco. Wherein the Advantages and Disadvantages Attending the Consumption of That Entertaining Weed Are Particularly Considered: Humbly Addressed to All Tobacco Consumers, but Especially to Those Among Religious People. 1819.