As for the Relf sisters, they received nothing. No damages, no financial compensation. Alabama offered nothing to those who ...

A Journey Through America's Heartland The Mississippi River, often referred to as the "Father of Waters," offers a majestic ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

At Twelvemile Island, Abake, her mother and her 10-year-old sister were handed over by Foster to one of the financial backers of Clotilda, a wealthy plantation owner by the name of Memorable Creagh.

The U.S. cotton industry, which depended on enslaved plantation labor in the ... Freedman and Southern Society Project. "Order by the Commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi." The ...

It was run, effectively, as a punishment camp for Black Americans, described by Ta-Nehisi Coates as ‘the gulag of Mississippi’, and is still cited as an example of everything wrong with the US justice ...

Carolyn Bryant, the daughter of a plantation manager and a nurse, hailed from Indianola, Mississippi ... been rounded up as murder suspects, and Southern papers were decrying the "savage crime." ...

Take a Louisiana plantation tour and discover how glamorous New Orleans society was supported by enslaved workers who made ...

In fact, Cecilia Kjellgren, the honorary Swedish consul for Louisiana, counts it as one of the highlights of Louisiana's Swedish culture. Though her district also includes Mississippi and Alabama, ...

Increased federal funding for Black farmers—not less—will help US agriculture become more resilient as our climate changes.

He landed in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1721 ... Louisiana had the only company with a Scandinavian name in the Southern Army as a whole," Kjellgren said. The company was part of the Louisiana ...

(The Perfect Shot/Southern Environmental Law Center via AP ... an investigation by The Examination, Toronto Star and Mississippi Today has found. That’s nearly 1 in 5 dollars out of all SLLs, the team ...