Latta Place is 16-acre historic site that’s closed while Mecklenburg County works to redesign the property. Mecklenburg County’s plan to fund the restoration of a former slave plantation as an ...

NMAF copy 39088013968409 is a gift from Ms. Betty A. Brooks & Mrs. Barbara B. Jackson. "The plantation was a battlefield where slaves fought masters for physical and psychological survival. Although ...

I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove Plantation in Moore, S.C., have never researched the descendants of the slaves who ...

The Woodland Plantation House sits near the banks of the Mississippi River in LaPlace, La. The raised creole-style building with a rusty tin roof and wide front porch has Black owners for the first ...

(The Root) — In the 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro column entitled “Why Was Cotton ‘King’?” I described how blacks were commodified by the plantation economy in slaveholding states. For many, the ...

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 ...

This story coming out from Brazil is unbelievable. A farm in the Paraíba valley of Rio de Janeiro state in southern Brazil has been restored as a slave plantation and is now open to the public. While ...

Mecklenburg County’s plan to fund the restoration of a former slave plantation as an educational site could be premature, the president of the county’s historical association says. The 2023-2024 ...

LAPLACE, La. — Jo Banner is excited to show the newly acquired Woodland Plantation House near the banks of the Mississippi River. “We have still a lot of work to do, but I think for the home to be ...