A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

At the time he acquired the property, Hammond already owned thousands of acres of land on multiple contiguous plantations ...

That's typically the scope of such projects, said Cheri Pritchard, spokesperson for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District. "Generally, the tidal influence in old rice plantation ...

Here you'll find the ruins of Wormsloe, the oldest standing structure in Savannah and the Colonial ... the enslaved people who maintained the plantation. Many visitors said they had to do their ...

Built in 1893, the property was a safe haven for the Black community in Savannah during segregation, and is on the Placentia Plantation, where generations of the Stone family were enslaved.

Park Ave., Savannah; +1 912 232 4447; $8 U.S.); try the panini sandwich. Highway 17 is dotted with plantations preserving a bit of the antebellum past. My favorites were Hobcaw Barony (22 Hobcaw ...

Originally called the Evergreen Cemetery (and occupying land previously used for a plantation), the Victorian-style cemetery was purchased by the city of Savannah in 1907 and redesigned to its ...