A letter from a former slave who lived on a Wilson County plantation in the mid-1800s offers a new look into how she adjusted ...

I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove Plantation in Moore, S.C., have never researched the descendants of the slaves who ...

What started as a quick stop on the side of the road turned into one of the largest slave cemeteries we’ve ever seen. As we walked deeper, sunken graves, fieldstones, and poured concrete markers began ...

Although generations have passed since the American Civil War, slavery’s past still taunts Black Americans in the form of Confederate flags and southern plantations. In fact, there remains hundreds of ...

NMAF copy 39088019259811 gift from the collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent ...

The Woodland Plantation House sits near the banks of the Mississippi River in LaPlace, La. The raised creole-style building with a rusty tin roof and wide front porch has Black owners for the first ...

"I believe those holidays were among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholders of keeping down the spirit of insurrection among the slaves." --Frederick Douglass On Dec. 20, 1837, just ...

Outraged critics accused President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” on Friday after the National Park Service removed ...

A farm in the Paraíba valley of Rio de Janeiro state in southern Brazil has been restored as a slave plantation and is now open to the public. While this isn't any big news, the fact that black people ...

LAPLACE, La. — Jo Banner is excited to show the newly acquired Woodland Plantation House near the banks of the Mississippi River. “We have still a lot of work to do, but I think for the home to be ...