Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, according to archaeologists who investigated a 16th-century sugar mill and ...

What was it like to live as an enslaved family right here in the Triangle area? Today, you can visit remains of one of the state’s largest plantations – and learn the names and stories of hundreds of ...

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, ...

An archeological effort in Brazoria County has continued to uncover evidence that the culture of slaves and newly freed sharecroppers was much richer than previously imagined. The Levi Jordan ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

When visitors approach the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana after its opening on Dec. 7, they won't be greeted by an actress in period dress ready to explain the origins of an antique ...

Agnes Kane Callum researched her family’s roots at Sotterley Plantation, where they were held in slavery. She documented her own ancestors and compiled records to help others trace their family ...

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 ...

Throughout the South, people can visit plantations and other destinations tied to slavery, but the connections aren’t always clear. They can be in surprising places and look nothing like expected.

Did Evelyn Duval, the wife of a Louisiana plantation owner, elope with a runaway slave in 1847? No, that's not true: This ...