Guest Opinion. The story of tobacco in colonial Virginia represents one of the earliest and most significant cases of ...

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 ...

The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia’s colonial legislature. He is perhaps best known as the first father-in-law of Martha ...