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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Antebellum Slave Quarter Site Adapted for Military Use during the Civil War at Kingsmill Plantation, James City County, Virginia Archaeological investigations of a site at Kingsmill Resort—best ...