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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...