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 ...

During the height of antebellum agricultural production, it is estimated that there were nearly fifty thousand plantations in the slaveholding states of the South.¹ Today, only a small fraction of ...

Black History Month is the perfect time to get acquainted with some of the many African American historical sites that dot the South. There is plenty of Black history and culture worth exploring in ...

They are ready to sift through what’s left in the Southern plantation home, perhaps sell the place, split the money, and do everything most families are tasked with when someone passes away.

The history of Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, LA, is one with deep Southern roots. Considered an American heritage ...

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

Great Southern (previously Great Southern Plantations) was a tax-effective (MIS) bluegum plantation business founded by John Young and Helen Sewell which expanded in wine, almonds, cattle and other ...