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 ...

a result of expanding European markets and quality improvements effected by Virginia’s tobacco inspection act, marked the opening of an era of unprecedented prosperity for Chesapeake planters.

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 ...