Why a plantation house fire ignited a heated debate over slavery’s legacy - A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s ...

Ecuador’s government has issued a public apology to a group of plantation workers who were subjected to slave-like conditions according to a a ruling issued last year by Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ...

I saw pain. I felt anguish. Joseph McGill, the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, which preserves remaining residences of the formerly enslaved on plantations as a way of teaching their ...

The estate was owned by Lewis Morris, who bought slaves from his Barbados sugar plantation to what is now known as Tinton Falls to work at his iron forge in the late-1600s. Morris assigned skilled ...

Early this year, the group bought the Woodland Plantation Home, putting it in Black ownership for the first time in more than two centuries. “Our mission is to eradicate the legacies of slavery ...

“They’re shocked,” said Muschalek, co-owner of the historic Whitehall Polley Mansion, a former slave plantation in Wilson County. “We want to make sure that’s part of the history we tell ...

However, they prefer to be called stewards of the plantation and its history which played a crucial role in the 1811 Slave Revolt. The Revolt is considered the largest slave rebellion in American ...

LAPLACE, La. — One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history is Black-owned for the first time. Over 200 years ago, scores of slaves escaped a plantation in LaPlace and marched ...