The tobacco plantation owner served in Virginia’s colonial legislature, and he was also the father-in-law to Martha ...

Gabriel was born in 1776, on Thomas Prosser's tobacco ... is likely that his father was a blacksmith, because skills were typically passed from generation to generation in Virginia slave families.

Q: The implications of tobacco on the labor needs of Virginia were very profound. Talk to me about that. A: Tobacco was to have an enormous influence on the subsequent settlement and development ...