What is the impact on Virginia and the rest of OTL United States if John Rolfe never plants any tobacco in Jamestown?
Virginia needed a cash crop to make it worthwhile to invest in the colony. It's like asking about Australia without wool.
I take it you might have a couple of accounts?When I posted the OP . . .
okay, so the initial handful of English colonies would be more about self-sufficiency and religious freedom.
And if you really want to run the table, it gives English and Native Americans more time to get used to each other and gives the natives more time to get used to imported diseases. Furthermore, less need for indentured servants. Part of this we need to see if tobacco is a particularly labor-intensive crop. If it slows down indentured servitude, there's less need and it's less 'economical' to move to full-time slaves. Might decide not to go in this direction.
I take it you might have a couple of accounts?
I guess that's okay, and you're open about it which seems like the right way to do it.