At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

Ricky Hart and Beverly Evans survey the vast expanse of Historic Stagville Plantation, where their ancestors’ whispers echo ...

But the masters and slaves never approached equality. The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of ...

It’s summer in Arkansas and members of the Lafayette family arrive after the brood’s patriarch has died. They are ready to sift through what’s left in the Southern plantation home, perhaps sell the ...

Made from a unique compound of shell pieces, lime, sand and water known as tabby, the buildings are the remains of an antebellum plantation home, complete with a kitchen chimney, outbuildings and ...

The marriage of ardent abolitionist Fanny Kemble and Pierce Butler, heir to one of the largest slaveholding plantations in the nation, mirrored the unhappy union between southern slaveholders and ...