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 ...

Community activists with ancestral ties to enslaved people at Louisiana plantations are using a unique legal theory to gain ...

To tell his version of this story, Blackburn begins his account of slavery in America, Brazil, and Cuba—“the ABC territories,” as he calls them—with the “first slavery” of the colonial ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — As the gravel crunched under the tires of my car, images of America’s heinous past flashed through my mind. This road was leading me to a plantation situated on 390 acres ...

Here's what visitors need to consider before and during their trips to historic plantation sites in the American South.

The Nation Magazine. Now, in his latest formidable synthesis, The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888, Blackburn recounts the long undoing of the “second slavery” in ...

Historic sites are grappling with how to portray the truth about slavery. But some people, it seems, prefer a sanitized retelling of America's past.

Nottoway Plantation became a resort and event venue . Before the fire, Nottoway was a resort and event venue, and its website described it as “the South’s largest remaining antebellum mansion.” ...

Why a plantation house fire ignited a heated debate over slavery’s legacy. A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil ...

WALLACE, Louisiana — Every year, thousands of people visit the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, to learn about the history of slavery in the state and around the country. Starting in ...

Video of the Nottoway Plantation fire sparks jubilation. It’s about anger and pain over slavery, too Preservationists say the jubilant reactions to the charred mansion reflect the trauma and ...