"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE race question in the South is at last beginning to be approached in a temper fairly free from partisan bias. But the institution which bequeathed us the race question still awaits dispassionate ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...

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 ...

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

Slavery is a part of America’s dark history, but there’s a part of slavery that makes America’s history even darker—the slave breeding farms. “They’ve shown us every plantation with cotton on it,” the ...