PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - A Pittsylvania county woman is uncovering her family’s history on a former slave plantation. To many, it might just look like a normal house, but it tells a much ...

1. Enslavement, acculturation, and African survivals -- 2. The Americanization of the slave and the Africanization of the South -- 3. Culture -- 4. The slave family -- 5. Rebels and runaways -- 6.

click image for close-up According to Celia Davis, a slave on Pierce Butler's Hampton plantation, Fanny Kemble was a "nice white lady, very rosy, [with] clothes always got on so rich." Still a child ...

"I believe those holidays were among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholders of keeping down the spirit of insurrection among the slaves." --Frederick Douglass On Dec. 20, 1837, just ...

Slavery and the Southern plantation -- Select bibliography -- I. The Negro's view -- Nat Turner: Confessions -- Josiah Henson: My first great trial ; My boyhood and youth ; Maimed for life -- Solomon ...

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 ...

Two Louisiana community groups claiming historic ties to the state's formerly enslaved population along the Mississippi River sued Wednesday for greater access to a plantation-era cemetery on the ...

MCCONNELLS — At Historic Brattonsville, York County's past isn't simply retained by the colonial-era homes and structures that still stand today. The history breathes through bloodlines as well. "I ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Along the Mississippi River sits a winding road; its curvature is aligned with the levee. Centuries-old estates are also abundant, situated on vast grounds upriver from New ...