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

As tobacco plantations expanded and ... Other states, such as Virginia, followed. In 1662, Virginia decided all children born in the colony to a slave mother would be enslaved.

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 ...

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 ...

Several worked on the main campus, while others lived and worked on Nottoway Quarter, the college-owned tobacco plantation. Historian Craig ... of the Bray Schools for Enslaved Children in Colonial ...