The best work unfolding at such sites today is led by groups like the Montpelier Descendants Committee, which fought for decades to gain a stake in the governance of the Virginia plantation site.

1640 - Three servants -- a Scotsman, a Dutchman, and an African -- run away from a Virginia plantation. Captured and returned to Virginia, they are tried for breaking their contract. Virginia ...

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 ...

Since that first trip to Walnut Grove, I've visited hundreds of other former plantations in Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina in an attempt to better understand the roles Black ...

The City Council voted unanimously to move forward with the project, despite concerns from residents on the project’s traffic ...

He designed Monticello (1769–1809), his plantation home, and his ideal 'academical village' (1817–26), which is still the heart of the University of Virginia. Jefferson's use of an architectural ...