She had been working on her journal -- a revealing look at southern plantations in which she detailed the injustices of slavery -- but another two decades would pass before her journal would be ...

It’s summer in Arkansas and members of the Lafayette family arrive after the brood’s patriarch has died. They are ready to sift through what’s left in the Southern plantation home, perhaps sell the ...

When I was 11, my school took a field trip to Walnut Grove Plantation, one of the oldest homes in South Carolina. The way the guides explained it, Scotch-Irish immigrants Charles and Mary Moore ...

the South now was a landscape with ruins -- ruined plantations... in the immediate aftermath of the war, ruined cities. In fact, in the immediate aftermath of the war, many major magazines and ...

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