Cultural and Heritage Museums opens the enslaved cemetery at Historic Brattonsville on Saturday, where hundreds of buried ...

It was once spotted with plantations, but now it’s home to nearly 200 petrochemical plants. Through their organization, the Descendants Project, the sisters are buying old plantations and ...

Dana Hand Evans, CEO of Middleton Place Foundation, plans to improve the historic property and collaborate with nearby ...

Hundreds of New Orleans plantations used to line the Mississippi River throughout Louisiana. Now there are few, mostly preserved as historical landmarks and educational centers, lest we forget our ...

Mecklenburg County officials say Latta Place — formerly known as Latta Plantation — will undergo a redesign that places more ...

A state plan to clear white pines in the Manuel F. Correllus Forest on Martha's Vineyard has caused debate. The state has ...

But the masters and slaves never approached equality. The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of ...

Products such as rum and refined sugar were produced in plantation on Caribbean islands like Antigua. The refineries were very hot and the work turning sugar cane into valuable finished goods was ...