"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 ...

A group of black medical students posed in front of the slave quarters on a Louisiana plantation for a powerful photo. Brian Washington Jr./Doyin Johnson WALLACE, Louisiana -- A group of black medical ...

GWENDOLYN BANKINS: IF IT WASN’T FOR THE FACT THAT I WAS A CHILD AND MY MOTHER MADE ME GO, I WAS NOT GOING TO A PLANTATION. THEO: FOR GWENDOLYN BANKINS, SOTTERLEY HOUSE WAS A PAINFUL REMINDER OF THE ...

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 ...

WALLACE, La. (AP) — Ceramic sculptures of hollow-eyed slave children haunt the Whitney Plantation, west of New Orleans, where owner John Cummings has infused the traditional antebellum plantation tour ...

HILLSBORO — Efforts are in progress to preserve the Boxwood Plantation slave quarters, a small two-room brick structure in the Mallard Fox West Industrial Park near Hillsboro that was built by slaves ...

NMAF copy 39088013968409 is a gift from Ms. Betty A. Brooks & Mrs. Barbara B. Jackson. "The plantation was a battlefield where slaves fought masters for physical and psychological survival. Although ...

Archaeologists have identified a burial ground at a plantation in Delaware where slaves were likely buried. The burial ground was discovered on March 9 during archaeological fieldwork at the John ...