They have a child (called Baby) and live and work on a farm that raises tobacco.
He certainly hadn't agreed with the plantation owners who raised cotton and tobacco.
Deal made a failed attempt to raise tobacco on the island - one of the first such efforts in Connecticut.
"Throughout most of my life, I've raised tobacco," he told an audience in North Carolina.
Her father was a sharecropper who raised tobacco, her mother took in laundry.
He then bought a farm, where he raised tobacco and minks.
Farms, many of which raised tobacco, dominated the surrounding areas.
"So, you see, we've been raising tobacco for a long time," Randy says.
More recently, tribespeople have been cutting down the trees to raise tobacco and chilis.
In the early colonial south, raising tobacco and cotton was common, especially through the use of slave labor until the Civil War.