Samuel Hairston, the plantation’s owner, was reputedly the largest enslaver in the South, Wiencek wrote. But the grand property has stood mostly empty and unused since sharecropping ended last ...

Oak Hill was part of a family empire that enslaved thousands of people across 45 plantations and farms in four states, according to “The Hairstons,” a 1999 book by Henry Wiencek that chronicles the ...

Samuel Hairston, the plantation's owner, was reputedly the largest enslaver in the South, Wiencek wrote. But the grand property has stood mostly empty and unused since sharecropping ended last ...