When visitors approach the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana after its opening on Dec. 7, they won't be greeted by an actress in period dress ready to explain the origins of an antique ...
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 ...
Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...
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 ...
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. — Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early Saturday morning last month, she joined ...
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 ...
A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, has sparked ...