The New York Times claimed in its 1619 Project that plantation slavery was the basis for American capitalism. However, ...

"I hope more people will consider digging a little deeper into their family story and not be afraid of going to the ...

In 2014 the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public as the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on ...

“This was not about the past,” Nkrumah Steward told ABC News. — -- It was a meeting 181 years in the making as Nkrumah Steward, a slave descendant, and Robert Adams, a plantation owner, sat down ...

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 ...

Prologue -- Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast -- Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family -- Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family -- "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane ...

1. Enslavement, acculturation, and African survivals -- 2. The Americanization of the slave and the Africanization of the South -- 3. Culture -- 4. The slave family -- 5. Rebels and runaways -- 6.

In the wake of the burning of Nottoway "Plantation & Resort," there has been a flurry of conversation all over social media about the use - if any - of plantations. I recently wrote about several ...

Susana Quinonez was born and raised on an abaca tree plantation along Ecuador's western coast where back-breaking work and ...

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 ...

Once the heart of a sprawling East Texas plantation run on enslaved labor, the Monte Verdi estate—complete with multiple historical markers—is now for sale for $1.59 million. Located on a hilltop in ...

When manual laborer Alison Moreira dos Santos moved across Brazil for a job on a sugarcane plantation in the southeastern ...