During the Antebellum era, plantation weddings became symbols of wealth and social power. To understand this phenomenon, ...

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

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

Nottoway plantation just burned down, so we decided to look into its history and other plantations where the most brutal chattel slavery occurred.

And in his 2011 The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights, he traced the abolitionist roots of modern human rights discourse.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Even as the Latin American republics gradually did away with slavery after their wars of independence, Cuba and Puerto Rico remained slave colonies governed by a Hispanic elite in the Spanish Empire.

By 1830 slavery was primarily located in the South, where it existed in many different forms. African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, in cities and towns, inside homes ...

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 ...

The legacy of slavery and systemic racism makes a strong case for reparations. Learn the key proposals, divided opinions, and where the issue stands now.