BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Antebellum Southern plantations were built on the backs of enslaved people, and many of those plantations hold places of honor on the National Register of Historic Places — but ...

The answer is clear about the innate inhumanity of slavery. Abuse ran rampant, everything from rape and dismemberment to separating families. Enslaved people lived in constant fear. Violence was ...

Gwendolyn Glenn: If you’ve ever wondered what life was like in the South Carolina midlands during the enslavement period in the 1700s and 1800s, Historic Brattonsville in York County has some answers.

In recent years, historic plantations in Virginia have worked to refocus attention on people who were enslaved. Over the past month, Belle Grove Plantation near Winchester found a special way to do ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – The plantation predates the Revolutionary War, officials with the plantation said to celebrate the 250 years, they are hosting an event Jul. 26 through the 28th on the plantation.

Friends visiting in Arkansas often ask where they can visit old Plantations. Plantations? They must think they are visiting Vicksburg, Miss. or one of the other locations where wealthy landowners ...

A plantation house in Wallace, Louisiana, that Jo and Joy Banner purchased in 2004 and renamed the Many Waters House. (Jo Banner) Jo Banner couldn't explain why she was drawn to the house that sat on ...

The Louisiana plantation home where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began has Black owners for the first time. They say the 1811... Louisiana plantation where historic slave revolt ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – Walnut Grove Plantation in Spartanburg County is once again welcoming visitors for inside tours after 18 months of restoration. Historians said the project breathed new life ...

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. Located on nearly 2,000 acres along the banks of the Potomac River, Stratford ...