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 ...

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 ...

Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand under the watchful eyes of armed guards on horseback. He ...

The Historic Smithfield Plantation Home is located west of the Virginia Tech Duck Pond. Built between 1772 and 1774, it was once the home of the Preston family and now hosts events such as weddings ...

It's been more than 200 years since scores of slaves escaped a LaPlace plantation and marched along the Mississippi River toward New Orleans in what is thought to be the largest slave revolt in ...

Angelica and Rodney Mitchell always thought plans to build a large grain export facility just next door to their home in Wallace was out of step with the needs of their historic community. So the ...