But the masters and slaves never approached equality. 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 ...

One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...

Even older slaves saw him as a leader. Prosser died in 1798, and his son Thomas Henry Prosser, at the age of 22, became the new master of the Brookfield Plantation. Thomas Henry was a cruel and ...

Cultural and Heritage Museums opens the enslaved cemetery at Historic Brattonsville on Saturday, where hundreds of buried ...

Freedom can’t be written on no piece of paper,” Cerys tells her mother Annie – an enslaved housemaid on the Llanrumney sugar ...

The movie Harriet begins with a scene showing a congregation of slaves on a southern plantation in Maryland, USA .

The analysis intends to re-examine the implementation of a social control process going hand in hand with an economic dependency affecting the former slaves and/or new plantation workers because White ...

As the title suggests, it focuses on a woman plantation owner, Elisabeth (Nia Roberts), her housekeeper Annie (Suzanne Packer ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became a popular refuge for slaves fleeing the horrors of plantation life in the American South. In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the ...

and visitors can tour the McLeod family home as well as the slaves' living quarters. They will also learn about the relationships between those who lived on the plantation and the property's ...