The public reaction to the burning of the Nottoway plantation, the largest remaining antebellum-era structure in the South, has been mixed. While many, particularly Black Americans, celebrate the ...

Civil War battles freed Robert Blake from slavery at a Charleston County rice plantation on the South Santee River.

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 ...

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 ...

Southern states used the system to address budget deficits and inadequate prison capacity after the Civil War, while providing a cheap and essentially disposable source of labor to the highest bidder.

He was originally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, a Civil War veteran all but lost to history. "No one knew about Sandy Wills," said Cheryl wills, Sandy's great-great-great-granddaughter.

Community activists with ancestral ties to enslaved people at Louisiana plantations are using a unique legal theory to gain ...

Tensions in American society today have analysts hurriedly investigating the origins of America’s Civil War. Can they glean lessons from that tragic history? Numerous volumes have been written ...