Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of Southern whites did not even own slaves; of those who ...

Long-obscured and forgotten, the burial plots of more than two dozen people enslaved by the seventh president of the US are ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

On their arrival in the New World, enslaved Africans would be unloaded from the ships and sold to plantation owners. After surviving confinement in the slave fortresses of the West African coast ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.

Take a Louisiana plantation tour and discover how glamorous New Orleans society was supported by enslaved workers who made ...