They were nobility, gentry, artisans, or servants. Anthony Johnson was a free black man who owned property in Virginia One of the few recorded histories of an African in America that we can glean ...

Bringing to a close a four decade-long chapter of dance history, Dance Theatre of Harlem Artistic Director Virginia Johnson has announced ... DTH became the first Black ballerina elevated to ...

Black and white women worked ... In 1640, the year Johnson purchased his first property, three servants fled a Virginia plantation. Caught and returned to their owner, two had their servitude ...