Ecuador’s government has issued a public apology to a group of plantation workers who were subjected to slave-like conditions according to a a ruling issued last year by Ecuador’s ...

Outside of historians, academics and the generational memories of Black New Orleanians, relatively few people understand the ...

There are unique cultural pockets throughout the United States and Coastal Georgia is no exception. The Gullah people here ...

The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.

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 ...

A plaque commemorates The Cage, an enclosure where runaway slaves were detained ... The decision to rekindle cotton harvesting at Hannay’s Plantation has elicited mixed reactions.

The South Pacific slave trade grew out of cotton, or rather a lack thereof. In the early 1860s, plantations in the American South produced 75 percent of the cotton used around the globe.

The historic journey, now known by the family as 'The Trek,' began in 1844 when enslaver Paul Cameron ordered 114 enslaved people to walk from Stagville to his newly-purchased cotton plantation in ...

Editor’s note: The FBI has confirmed it is investigating the messages invoking slavery that were sent to Black men, women and students in at least six states. It is not yet clear who was behind ...

You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation. Be ready at 3PM SHARP with your belongings. Our Executive Slaves will come get you in a Brown Van, be prepared to be searched down ...

US authorities are investigating reports of black people receiving racist text messages from unrecognised phone numbers telling them they have been "selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation".

to get a racist text Wednesday telling her she had been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation” and referring to “executive slave catchers,” she told CNN. “I thought it was ...