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 ...
In this June 19, 2020 photo, members of RISE St. James pray over the graves of what are believed to be formerly enslaved Black people buried on the site of the former Buena Vista plantation. Formosa ...
HILLSBORO — Efforts are in progress to preserve the Boxwood Plantation slave quarters, a small two-room brick structure in the Mallard Fox West Industrial Park near Hillsboro that was built by slaves ...
Tucked away on the side of a busy Manatee County road stands the vestige of a defining era in American history. At its peak, the Gamble Plantation enslaved 190 men, women and children. Federal ...
Whitney Nell Stewart - Author, This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations To mark her graduation from dental school in 2021, Breanna Henley took photographs in front of a slave ...
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, ...
The plantation known as Farm Pen once stretched across 760 acres of flat, fertile land not far from here. The estate was owned in the late 18th century by a British banking family that included George ...
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 ...
An interesting discovery in archaeology has led the experts to see traces of plantation slavery on a tiny West African island at the equator. In São Tomé, there lies a piece of evidence that the ...
Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations
Paul Lashmar is affiliated with the Labour Party. Rich British aristocratic families with a legacy of owning colonial slave plantations are often accused by campaigners that their wealth solely ...
The public reaction to the burning of the Nottoway plantation, the largest remaining antebellum-era structure in the South, has been mixed. While many, particularly Black Americans, celebrate the ...
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