Civil War battles freed Robert Blake from slavery at a Charleston County rice plantation on the South Santee River. Then a rebel attack thrust him into a near-death moment of bravery near Johns ...

Yet, southern plantations in the United States are not treated with the same reverence. ... It's reminiscent of the more than 250 enslaved people's uprisings leading up to the Civil War, ...

Although the Civil War ended— freeing American slaves in 1865— life at Nottoway remained the same for years to come. ... Life on Monticello was similar to that of other southern plantations.

The American Civil War Museum’s acclaimed new ... “Cotton is king,” reinforcing the belief among Southern plantation owners that enslavement was essential to the financial well-being of ...

The South’s biggest surviving antebellum mansion was reduced to rubble by a massive fire which was still under investigation Friday. The Nottaway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana, started ...

Nostalgic descriptions of pre-Civil War Christmases on Southern plantations are just one of the ways Lost Cause proponents obscure the horrors of human bondage in Dixie, allowing politicians to ...

Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was the primary cause of ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the United States Colored Troops, which led her to a distant relative, a ...