<Dd> "Mischance rather than Misconduct hath been the cause of (my debt)... It is but an irksome thing to a free mind to be always hampered in Debt ." </Dd> <P> In conjunction with a global financial crisis and growing animosity toward British rule, tobacco interests helped unite disparate colonial players and produced some of the most vocal revolutionaries behind the call for American independence . A spirit of rebellion arose from their claims that insurmountable debts prevented the exercise of basic human freedoms . </P>

Explain why tobacco became virginia's most important crop