"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 ...

Throughout the South, people can visit plantations and other destinations tied to slavery, but the connections aren’t always clear. They can be in surprising places and look nothing like expected.

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 ...

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 ...

Columnist Voices from a slave plantation February 19, 2023 at 2:30 a.m. by BROOKE GREENBERG ... Up in Connecticut, a famous piano teacher preserves a rare artifact of Arkansas history: four letters ...

Although generations have passed since the American Civil War, slavery’s past still taunts Black Americans in the form of Confederate flags and southern plantations. In fact, there remains hundreds of ...

Click to open image viewer. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A small, ...