Roughly 275 burial plots of the formerly enslaved and sharecroppers at Danville, Va.’s Oak Hill plantation site are being ...

Listen to this article Using a $1.89 million loan from the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority, Danville and Pittsylvania County officials plan to purchase about 289 acres adjacent to the ...

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

The status of blacks in Virginia slowly changed over the last ... shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resist his master...correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such ...

In 1640, the year Johnson purchased his first property, three servants fled a Virginia plantation ... shall be held to be real estate." English suppliers responded to the increasing demand ...