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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