The Woodland Plantation House sits near the banks of the Mississippi River in LaPlace, La. The raised creole-style building with a rusty tin roof and wide front porch has Black owners for the first ...
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He was born a slave - then sent to the insane asylum
This old Georgia cemetery began as a burial ground for people enslaved on the Mahone plantation, but the deeper the research goes, the darker the story becomes. Among the graves are people born into ...
"I believe those holidays were among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholders of keeping down the spirit of insurrection among the slaves." --Frederick Douglass On Dec. 20, 1837, just ...
Video of the Nottoway Plantation fire sparks jubilation. It's about anger and pain over slavery, too
After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...
Louisiana's Whitney Plantation—open since 2014 as a museum dedicated to education about the legacy of slavery in the U.S.—lost its federal grants as a result of Trump's attack on DEI. Unfortunately, ...
A farm in the Paraíba valley of Rio de Janeiro state in southern Brazil has been restored as a slave plantation and is now open to the public. While this isn't any big news, the fact that black people ...
LAPLACE, La. — Jo Banner is excited to show the newly acquired Woodland Plantation House near the banks of the Mississippi River. “We have still a lot of work to do, but I think for the home to be ...
The Louisiana plantation home where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began has Black owners for the first time. They say the 1811... Louisiana plantation where historic slave revolt ...
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