Question: What products did North Carolina export during the Revolutionary War?
Answer: North Carolina’s exports began with colonial naval stores such as turpentine, rosin, tar, and pitch, as well as lumber, corn, wheat, and tobacco. They were primarily shipped to England, the British West Indies, and New England. The Revolutionary War disrupted trade, but exports revived in the mid-1780s, with naval stores and tobacco thriving. Tobacco exports rose from 360,000 pounds in 1768 to 6 million pounds in 1788, mainly to New England and Glasgow.
