Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve all seen Southern plantation houses in the movies, with dreamy allées leading up to picturesque neoclassical mansions, set ...

Most times Hilton Head native islander Alex Brown leaves his house, he drives by graves and a historical marker that bear the names of the men who enslaved his ancestors. He cringes. For 220 years, ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...

The history of chattel slavery in the American South is not an easy subject to examine. The Lowcountry’s former plantations, where that history is experienced most acutely, are places of contradiction ...

The key to better understanding the complex and uncomfortable parts of the American history is asking more nuanced questions, not leaning into one’s preconceived notions, says a historian working at ...

A fire that ravaged Nottoway Plantation, one of the Deep South's largest pre-Civil War mansions, sparked a wave of mixed reactions online, ranging from jubilation to dismay. The Louisiana landmark, ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- On a chilly Saturday, dozens of people took an in-person tour of Durham's Stagville Plantation for a socially-distanced experience. For a $5 fee they spent 75 minutes learning ...

The location of the Blessing is the East Branch of the Cooper River, in the Huger area of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish of Berkeley County. Today’s location is off South Carolina Highway 41 on ...

Latta Plantation remains closed following backlash against a Juneteenth-timed event advertised as highlighting the plight of “white refugees” in the aftermath of the Civil War. After the event was ...

With their oak-lined driveways and stately mansions, the plantations that line Louisiana’s River Road are some of the most recognizable landmarks in the state. But visiting plantations can also raise ...