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 ...

Archaeologists believe that plantation slavery may have taken root on a 16th-century sugar estate on the tiny African island of São Tomé. The two volcanic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were ...

Student poster shows the layout of the Middleburg Plantation. Using a blend of data, history, and archaeology, UC Santa Cruz undergraduates have explored what life as a slave was like on plantations ...

Although generations have passed since the American Civil War, slavery’s past still taunts Black Americans in the form of Confederate flags and southern plantations. In fact, there remains hundreds of ...

I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove Plantation in Moore, S.C., have never researched the descendants of the slaves who ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property ...

LAPLACE, La. — Jo Banner is excited to show the newly acquired Woodland Plantation House near the banks of the Mississippi River. “We have still a lot of work to do, but I think for the home to be ...

LAPLACE, La. — One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history is Black-owned for the first time. Over 200 years ago, scores of slaves escaped a plantation in LaPlace and marched along ...

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 ...