The film recounts the early life of George Washington, highlighting his upbringing on a Virginia tobacco plantation. It ...

click image for close-up A Tobacco Plantation was the title page for the 1788 publication The Federalist. Authored by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, The Federalist is a ...

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 ...

But not only farmers would benefit: if U.S. tobacco plantations would become solar farms, around 480,000 deaths per year of current smokers, and more than 42,000 deaths per year caused by passive ...

DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — A decision to move the remains of hundreds African American tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation to a dedicated burial ground has elicited a range of ...

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 ...

At 24 years of age, William Byrd III presided over a vast Virginia estate that included Westover, a prosperous tobacco plantation on the James River. He possessed a round face, soft eyes ...

Throughout the region, plantation revenues rose, and tobacco revenues were often by then augmented with returns from grains. Unlike tobacco, there were decided economies of scale in grain production ...

When asked about child labor in Artigas on Telemundo (Channel 12), Governor Pablo Caram said it was “normal” to see minors working in a tobacco plantation. ”In the tobacco (production sector ...