You can’t pay us enough to find a plantation.” A cheap, illegal workforce is necessary ... When I was in grade school, my teachers taught me about the African slaves dying on ships attempting to come ...

Rose Elder held her husband’s hands tightly as their red limousine eased down Magnolia Lane. They had met years earlier on ...

University of the West Indies history Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles spoke about reparations for chattel slavery in the ...

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

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

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

How many slaves did the Laura Plantation have? The Larua plantation had 186 slaves living on property by the end of the civil war. After the emancipation, the majority of the enslaved continued to ...

The McLeod property features a plantation house and a fully intact row of five slave dwellings. (In 1860 there were 26 cabins ...

Annie is the daughter of a woman raped by the late master of the house. Her mother’s eventual resistance to the abuse ...

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