The United States relied on Europe for most of its seeds until then. While people gave away seeds, traded seeds and sold their own extra seed stock, large commercial seed producers were more a product of necessity when the government stopped importation and then the trade embargo of 1807 took effect. We had some really fast ships that ran the blockades and cleaned up financially when they made it back with goods, but, in general, the War of 1812 hurt merchants and caused depressions in many coastal towns.
In this illustration the Embargo Act of 1813 is personified by a huge
terrapin, who seizes a violator of the law by the seat of his breeches.
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