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, ...

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 ...

Steve Madden of Redlands will present “Shades of Gray: A Southern Perspective on the Civil War” 2 p.m. Oct. 16 in a program for the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table.