English merchants supplied colonists with manufactured goods and bound labor and took their profits primarily from the return cargoes of tobacco.

英国商人为殖民者供应制成品和合同工，主要从烟草的回头货中获利。

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In "The Reading Hour, " a column that she wrote for the Bakersfield paper, Knief had also noted that this tale of migratory labor was bound to be "of more than passing interest" to local readers.

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