As tobacco plantations expanded and England's surplus ... began to pose a threat to the property-owning elite. The colonial establishment had placed restrictions on available lands, creating ...

Such plots of land dotted Britain’s colonies and served as status symbols for the elite. They were the 18th-century equivalent of buying a Lamborghini. The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John ...

Several worked on the main campus, while others lived and worked on Nottoway Quarter, the college-owned tobacco plantation. Historian Craig Steven Wilder asserts that during the colonial period, "a ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... Africans soon are put to work on tobacco plantations. 1663: A Virginia court decides that a child ...

This latest study investigated traces of the colonial occupation at the site and revealed details of plantation life not available in ... By 1630, Claiborne was one of the 10 largest tobacco exporters ...

Scotland's History Enlightenment and Empire Scots own Colonial plantations The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

The Commonwealth government wanted to mold the disparate colonies it had seized upon the execution ... Throughout the region, plantation revenues rose, and tobacco revenues were often by then ...

At 24 years of age, William Byrd III presided over a vast Virginia estate that included Westover, a prosperous tobacco plantation on ... most important race of the colonial era,” according ...

Initially, most local plantations were growing cotton and tobacco. However, strong competition from the North American colonies meant that prices in these crops were falling. In response ...

Throughout the once-thriving town, you'll discover a wonderland of real-life historical exhibits that include colonial-era buildings, a tobacco plantation, an archeological site, and a replica of ...