Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...

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

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

It is not blood alone that binds Black Americans to this soil. America, as we know it today, simply would not exist without ...

Whether oozing with extravagant opulence or dripping with Southern charm, these mansions and plantations are worthy of a visit.

The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation is helping the Jesuits reconcile their role in enslavement by taking action ...

Until it happened in real life, the idea that California’s governor would have come out publicly in defense of child trafficking and forced labor on illegal drug farms in his state would have been ...

Leaving the Plantation Slave quarters like these, at Evergreen Plantation, Louisiana, were often one- or two-room wood cabins and housed families.