An elementary school in Louisville, Kentucky, sits on land that was once the Farmington hemp plantation. That fact gutted me as I stood before "Childhood Interrupted," an art installation depicting ...

Picking the right tour means more than picking a plantation close to your hotel. (Many plantations are located within an hour ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields-Black, ...

Gwen Bankins, 61, stood in a hot, cramped cabin in Southern Maryland on a recent afternoon and thought about the lives that had passed through it. Nearly 180 years ago, her great-great-grandfather — ...

History Professor Gregory O'Malley will read from his new book, The Escapes Of David George, at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Feb.2 David George was born enslaved in Virginia in 1742, but he never gave up on ...

HARPERSVILLE, Ala. — Word travels fast in this small town, so when Theoangelo Perkins heard that the family of Bill Parker was visiting his grave, he jumped in his car and raced to the old cemetery.

NMAF copy 39088013968409 is a gift from Ms. Betty A. Brooks & Mrs. Barbara B. Jackson. "The plantation was a battlefield where slaves fought masters for physical and psychological survival. Although ...

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 ...

The traveling exhibit “Indigeaux: Yes, Spirit. I’ll go …” recently arrived at the Whitney Plantation in Wallace. Created by Leia Lewis, an educator, artist and self-described “light-bringer” and ...

ROCK HILL — Tucked away in the rural York County, just outside of McConnells, lies Historic Brattonsville, a 259-year-old plantation in the heart of the Carolina Piedmont. It sprawls over 800 acres ...

Roots — those connections that aren’t immediately obvious, that sometimes are hidden away for generations, but when exposed can arouse powerful emotions of kinship. Whether the connections arise from ...