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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These statues of enslaved young boys are part of a modern-day depiction of southern plantation life at the Whitney Museum in ...

A towering alley of live oaks leading to an imposing white columned mansion — it’s the classic Louisiana plantation scene at the famous Oak Alley Plantation. But did you know you can stay overnight at ...

Many Americans now are seeking to come to terms with a long legacy of racism embedded in fabric of a country that, since its colonial origins, has subjugated and oppressed Black people. During the ...

History is not static. It refers to deeds done, lives lived, but there is always more to discover. To remain vital and informative, historic sites keep digging into the past and sharing their ...

Visit the historic rice and sea island cotton plantations of South Carolina’s coast and you will experience firsthand a nearly ubiquitous phenomenon of America’s Southland: contradiction. These sites ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...