Nottoway plantation just burned down, so we decided to look into its history and other plantations where the most brutal ...

Think of slavery and the first image that comes to mind is a 19th-century Southern cotton plantation. However, by the 1630s, slavery already existed in all 13 colonies with the first enslaved Africans ...

They gained a sense of power simply by being white. In the lower South the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton plantations. Most of these plantations had fifty or fewer slaves ...

If ever a farm had secrets, Prospect Hill is the keeper of ghosts. The former cotton plantation conceals one of the most ...

She recently received a $25,000 grant from The Aftermath Project for her work that explores her ancestral ties to slavery. Davenport’s ancestors owned a cotton plantation in Louisiana, and for decades ...

They plowed and fertilized the plantation, picked cotton, built fences and butchered hogs. They also made a cement-like mixture called tabby that was used to construct the three standing slave ...

Nottoway Plantation burned to the ground this week after a fire broke out Thursday, authorities say. Why it matters: The ...

It operated mainly as a cotton plantation until the last crop was ... and visitors can tour the McLeod family home as well as the slaves' living quarters. They will also learn about the ...