The best work unfolding at such sites today is led by groups like the Montpelier Descendants Committee, which fought for ...

The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

In 1640, the year Johnson purchased his first property, three servants fled a Virginia plantation. Caught and returned to their owner, two had their servitude extended four years. However ...

This book has two goals. First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy ...

Archaeology at a 17th-Century Trading Plantation Site in the City of Hampton, Virginia Supported by: Virginia Department of Transportation and The City of Hampton The William & Mary Center for ...

It led ABC News Senior Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas to discover the West Virginia plantation where his ancestors were born into slavery. ABC News is the exclusive media partner of the ...

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 ...

Richard "Richie" Blick holds a ladder for architectural historian Marc Wagner on the second floor of the historic Blick Plantation in Lawrenceville, Va. Richie did not have any luck locating the ...

For eight years, McLean gathered information needed for her book as she interviewed those connected with the Buchanans, visiting Virginia plantations, archives and family members. The remarkable story ...