Cotton was by far the leading cash crop, but slaves also raised rice, corn, sugarcane, and tobacco. Many plantations raised several different kinds of crops. Besides planting and harvesting ...

Lynchburg became a thriving city largely on the backs of enslaved people. It's a part of the history of the City of Lynchburg ...

The cellar of an excavated slave quarter on the Mansion House Farm has yielded large numbers of clay pipe fragments, which both men and women used for smoking tobacco. A number of the plantation's ...

Several worked on the main campus, while others lived and worked on Nottoway Quarter, the college-owned tobacco plantation. Historian Craig Steven Wilder asserts that during the colonial period, "a ...

They stormed the plantations before dawn ... and control over the means of production for sugar, tobacco, and other products, slaves were sometimes able to muster longer-term rebellions.

The port was a major hub for sugar imported from plantations ... from the slave trade. A small group of Glaswegian merchants dominated the rapidly expanding transatlantic tobacco trade.

He believes that relative to population, Scots owned more slaves, more plantations and had a higher share of the transatlantic trade in plantation goods such as tobacco and sugar than England or ...