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

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 ...

To be sure, finding yourself in bondage on a Virginia tobacco plantation was not the result ... By the 1650s, their estate had grown to 250 acres. For any ex-servant -- black or white -- to ...

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 ...

This is clear when visiting Mount Vernon in Virginia ... George inherited the estate, which produced whisky, raised cattle and grew tobacco on the plantation – largely worked by slaves ...