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

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 ...

Virginia was being held back. Thanks to tobacco, it had the means to make ... and Portuguese more than a century before. Gradually the plantation owners' perspective became more aligned with ...

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.