Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors walk outside the main plantation house at the Whitney Plantation in Edgard, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) Louisiana ...

A fire that ravaged Nottoway Plantation, one of the Deep South's largest pre-Civil War mansions, sparked a wave of mixed reactions online, ranging from jubilation to dismay. The Louisiana landmark, ...

HILLSBORO — Efforts are in progress to preserve the Boxwood Plantation slave quarters, a small two-room brick structure in the Mallard Fox West Industrial Park near Hillsboro that was built by slaves ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The rooms inside Woodland Plantation in LaPlace are nearly bare, and for good reason. There’s nothing to hide the whole history of what plantation life was. “They think ...

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 ...

Whitney Nell Stewart - Author, This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations To mark her graduation from dental school in 2021, Breanna Henley took photographs in front of a slave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this June 19, 2020 photo, members of RISE St. James pray over the graves of what are believed to be formerly enslaved Black ...

NMAF copy 39088013968409 is a gift from Ms. Betty A. Brooks & Mrs. Barbara B. Jackson. "The plantation was a battlefield where slaves fought masters for physical and psychological survival. Although ...

Paul Lashmar is affiliated with the Labour Party. Rich British aristocratic families with a legacy of owning colonial slave plantations are often accused by campaigners that their wealth solely ...