NMAF copy 39088013968409 is a gift from Ms. Betty A. Brooks & Mrs. Barbara B. Jackson. "The plantation was a battlefield where slaves fought masters for physical and psychological survival. Although ...

Tucked away on the side of a busy Manatee County road stands the vestige of a defining era in American history. At its peak, the Gamble Plantation enslaved 190 men, women and children. Federal ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Antebellum Southern plantations were built on the backs of enslaved people, and many of those plantations hold places of honor on the National Register of Historic Places — but ...

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - A Pittsylvania county woman is uncovering her family’s history on a former slave plantation. To many, it might just look like a normal house, but it tells a much ...

Nc. (FOX) — The descendants of two Africans who were enslaved at a North Carolina plantation will spend the night in a reconstructed slave cabin near the same sites where they once lived. Mina Wilson, ...

MINDY: THE BELVOIR PLANTATION IN CROWNSVILLE HOLDS A LOT OF HISTORY. IT WAS A CAMP FOR REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS, AN ESTATE OWNED BY THE FAMILY OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. BUT THERE’S ANOTHER FAMILY ...

Prologue -- Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast -- Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family -- Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family -- "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane ...