The grave of Lottie Hairston on the former Oak Hill plantation outside Danville, Va. The remains of hundreds of Black tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation will be moved to a ...

The graves for hundreds of Black tenant farmers on a Virginia tobacco plantation will soon be moved to a dedicated burial ...

In some ways he was a lucky man. To be sure, finding yourself in bondage on a Virginia tobacco plantation was not the result of good luck, but Anthony Johnson would rise above his low status and ...

They were the 18th-century equivalent of buying a Lamborghini. The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia’s colonial legislature. He is ...

Gabriel was born in 1776, on Thomas Prosser's tobacco plantation in Henrico County, Virginia. When he was about ten, Gabriel and his brother Solomon began training as blacksmiths. Although almost ...

Gant's story. He was born in 1821 and spent his early life as a slave on a Virginia tobacco plantation called Woodburn Estates. He married Anna Maria Hughes in 1843 and freed in 1845 after ...