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 ...

Wilton House, in Richmond’s West End, is a little more complicated. In the course of nearly 200 years, the Georgian-style house prospered as a tobacco plantation, housed soldiers and military ...

It started off as an indigo and tobacco plantation, but the indigo processing was making the slaves sick, so then it became a sugarcane plantation.

During this period, tobacco plantation areas in Bandarban jumped from 300 acres to 1,810 acres, a 600 percent increase. Researchers identified a connection between the poverty of rural farmers and ...

The 3-Minute Interview: Anjela Barnes helps bring Colonial tobacco plantation to life By Matt Connolly April 28, 2013 4:00 am ...

MANILA, Philippines — The National Tobacco Administration (NTA) deployed drones to map and oversee tobacco plantations nationwide. The Philippine News Agency says it boosts efficiency and ...

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 ...

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 emotions among the ...

The descendants of enslavers and enslaved have come together where their ancestors once lived, working to address the plantation’s legacy and promote healing.

Both were enslaved workers on a tobacco plantation in Virginia. My ancestors planted tobacco, picked tobacco, chewed tobacco and smoked it.