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 ground. However, the decision to do so has sparked backlash and mixed ...

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 ...

Africans soon are put to work on tobacco plantations. 1663: A Virginia court decides that a child born to a slave mother is also a slave. 1705: The General Assembly declares imported servants who ...