In old Virginia
Virginia, biography
Farmers
Country life
Slavery
Diaries
Agriculture
Economic conditions
Social conditions
Biography
History
"In 1824, John Walker purchased a 500-acre farm in King and Queen County, Virginia, and began working it with a dozen slaves. The son of a local politican and planter who grew tobacco, Walker lost status when he became a devout Methodist, raised wheat, and treated his slaves like brothers and sister…
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