BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Antebellum Southern plantations were built on the backs of enslaved people, and many of those plantations hold places of honor on the National Register of Historic Places — but ...
Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South
Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand under the watchful eyes of armed guards on horseback. He ...
Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Colonial Period, 1821-1835: ""Texas Must Be a Slave Country""; 2 Slavery in the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836: ""A Dull, Organic Ache""; 3 Growth and ...
When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations. He’s struck ...
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 ...
Introduction: Home in slavery -- Demarcating home and labor : Montpelier Plantation, Virginia -- Concealing for privacy and protection : Stagville Plantation, North Carolina -- Rooting one's people : ...
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