Before European contact, the Cherokee had a practice of adopting and enslaving prisoners of war from other tribes.

The history of chattel slavery in the American South is not an easy subject to examine. The Lowcountry’s former plantations, where that history is experienced most acutely, are places of contradiction ...

What was it like to live as an enslaved family right here in the Triangle area? Today, you can visit remains of one of the state’s largest plantations – and learn the names and stories of hundreds of ...

THE race question in the South is at last beginning to be approached in a temper fairly free from partisan bias. But the institution which bequeathed us the race question still awaits dispassionate ...

HILLSBORO — Efforts are in progress to preserve the Boxwood Plantation slave quarters, a small two-room brick structure in the Mallard Fox West Industrial Park near Hillsboro that was built by slaves ...

Whitney Nell Stewart - Author, This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations To mark her graduation from dental school in 2021, Breanna Henley took photographs in front of a slave ...

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 ...

In this June 19, 2020 photo, members of RISE St. James pray over the graves of what are believed to be formerly enslaved Black people buried on the site of the former Buena Vista plantation. Formosa ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property ...

A fire that ravaged Nottoway Plantation, one of the Deep South's largest pre-Civil War mansions, sparked a wave of mixed reactions online, ranging from jubilation to dismay. The Louisiana landmark, ...