THE race question in the South is at last beginning to be approached in a temper fairly free from partisan bias. But the institution which bequeathed us the race question still awaits dispassionate ...
"I believe those holidays were among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholders of keeping down the spirit of insurrection among the slaves." --Frederick Douglass On Dec. 20, 1837, just ...
Did Evelyn Duval, the wife of a Louisiana plantation owner, elope with a runaway slave in 1847? No, that's not true: This ...
There are a dozen restored antebellum mansions and plantations along the west bank of the Mississippi River, on the River Road outside of New Orleans, and they are among the most popular tourist day ...
Slaves at Rosedown Plantation, the state’s most visited historical site, were “happy” and had “a natural musical instinct,” claimed the wording of an official exhibit sign at the state-owned and ...
GWENDOLYN BANKINS: IF IT WASN’T FOR THE FACT THAT I WAS A CHILD AND MY MOTHER MADE ME GO, I WAS NOT GOING TO A PLANTATION. THEO: FOR GWENDOLYN BANKINS, SOTTERLEY HOUSE WAS A PAINFUL REMINDER OF THE ...
Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property ...
Originally published in Charleston Currents. With rapid-fire questions, Georgia nurse Leonza Hudson wanted to know where the enslaved people at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens attended church and cook ...
Black and white descendants of a family that owned a plantation in South Carolina travelled to London, Ont., to learn more ...
A group of black medical students posed in front of the slave quarters on a Louisiana plantation for a powerful photo. Brian Washington Jr./Doyin Johnson WALLACE, Louisiana -- A group of black medical ...
A racist event description, promising to tell the story of “white refugees” and defeated Confederate soldiers, was abruptly removed Friday by the Historic Latta Plantation after backlash. On its ...
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