Nottoway Plantation just burned down, so we're looking into its history and other plantations where the most brutal chattel slavery occurred.

Southern plantations were depicted as ... One can hear echoes of the Lost Cause view of the Civil War, which played down the evils of slavery and the coming of emancipation and freedom.

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War ...

Historian Gary Potter explains the three main functions of slave patrols in his study "The History of Policing in the United States." "(1) to chase down ... a Georgia plantation for the rumored ...

Rosenthal writes of one plantation where the owner supervised a top lawyer, who supervised ... But this, too, served the interests of money. Slavery pulled down all workers’ wages.

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 ...

looking down on the field hands from their verandahs and the company's private golf course," the group says. By contrast, "most of the workers have never been off of the plantation and do not even ...

Overgrown with brambles and grass, South Road lay forgotten for almost 200 years, its purpose decaying along with the slave cabins that once lined it during the early part of the 19th century.

Woodland is the place where slaves escaped a LaPlace ... have access to their history.” On top of working with descendants of enslaved people from the plantation, the site is expected to feature ...

Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow ... Earlier, the state warned that shutting down the farm line once the heat index hits 88 degrees, as ...