The publication, designed to win support for the newly proposed U.S. Constitution, does not deal with slavery, or even agriculture, much less a tobacco plantation. The title page image ...

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 ...

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 ...

Slavery was officially abolished in the US ... Enslaved people were brought to work on the cotton, sugar and tobacco plantations. The crops they grew were sent to Europe or to the northern ...

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.

From the 1650s to 1776, parts of the Americas and coastal regions of West Africa were under British authority and connected ...

"Unlike other crop harvesting industries, the tobacco plantation owners of Cuba refused to use slave labour, insisting instead on employing free men." However, in another video on social media ...