Labels:text | screenshot | font | book OCR: Jemp, introduction to America. To the society of the Middle Ages hemp was of great importance. gts 5 to 15 feet long white bast fibres were used in the production of sails for windmills and ships, flower bags. flags, altar cloths etc. On the beginning of the 17th century. England and Holland were entangled in a long lasting trade war. The Dutch had up till then supplied the British Empire with hemp grown in the Baltic and in the Dutch Indies. and the trade conflict caused an acute hemp shortage. In an attempt to fight back, the first American crop of Indian Hemp was planted in 1611 near Jamestown, Virginia.
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