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 ...

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

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

Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South, banks in the North, shipping merchants, and the textile industry in Great Britain.

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 ...

to get a racist text Wednesday telling her she had been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation” and referring to ...

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 ...

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 ...