During this time it is believed the present farmhouse at Woodville was also built, since Neville reported a tenfold increase in his slave holdings in 1780.

Certainly, many of them were wealthy men, and the Father of Our Country was said to be the wealthiest man in the colonies from his land and slave holdings.

A 1769 advertisement described the farm's slave holdings, and shackles were found there.

Figures from 1860 reveal slave holdings in York County were relatively small, with approximately 70% of all farms holding fewer than 10 slaves and less than 3% of the farms with 50 or more.

The Blakes and Heighes were Maryland colonists, prominent in the Church of England, active in political affairs, and planters with slave holdings.

Archaeological excavations, legal records and even business documents have shed light on the considerable slave holdings in the North, not least in 18th-century New York City.

This greatly frightened the major powers of the day (GB, US, France, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal) who had extensive slave holdings.

He spent most of his time managing the family's extensive land and slave holdings in North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee.

Ironically, he attempted to leave his slave holdings as property to endow a seminary in Louisiana.

This was customary practice in those years by planters who had sufficient slave holdings.