Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, according to archaeologists who investigated a 16th-century sugar mill and ...
What was it like to live as an enslaved family right here in the Triangle area? Today, you can visit remains of one of the state’s largest plantations – and learn the names and stories of hundreds of ...
After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...
Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...
An archeological effort in Brazoria County has continued to uncover evidence that the culture of slaves and newly freed sharecroppers was much richer than previously imagined. The Levi Jordan ...
Agnes Kane Callum researched her family’s roots at Sotterley Plantation, where they were held in slavery. She documented her own ancestors and compiled records to help others trace their family ...
Louisiana's Whitney Plantation—open since 2014 as a museum dedicated to education about the legacy of slavery in the U.S.—lost its federal grants as a result of Trump's attack on DEI. Unfortunately, ...
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 ...
VACHERIE, LOUISIANA — Antebellum plantations haven’t always been completely honest. After opening as tourist destinations many chose to soften, and in some cases, eliminate a pivotal part of their ...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana president Irfaan Ali on Thursday lashed out at the descendants of European slave traders, saying those who profited from the cruel, trans-Atlantic slave trade should ...
After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...