The graves for hundreds of Black tenant farmers on a Virginia tobacco plantation will soon be moved to a dedicated burial ground. However, the decision to do so has sparked backlash and mixed ...
Most of these plantations had fifty or fewer ... house servants and their owners tended to form more complex relationships. Black and white children were especially in a position to form bonds ...
Hundreds of Black graves to be moved from former Virginia plantation to make way for industrial park
according to “The Hairstons,” a 1999 book by Henry Wiencek that chronicles the Black and white Hairston families. Samuel Hairston, the plantation’s owner, was reputedly the largest enslaver ...
An image showing the Saint-Domingue Revolution of 1791. Caribbean plantation owners feared the larger black population would rise up in rebellion. Slave Laws were designed to subdue the enslaved ...
On Caribbean islands the population of black enslaved people was usually much larger than the white European population. The plantation owners and white population lived in fear of rebellions.
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