"I believe those holidays were among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholders of keeping down the spirit of insurrection among the slaves." --Frederick Douglass On Dec. 20, 1837, just ...

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 ...

Slavery is a part of America’s dark history, but there’s a part of slavery that makes America’s history even darker—the slave breeding farms. “They’ve shown us every plantation with cotton on it,” the ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Along the Mississippi River sits a winding road; its curvature is aligned with the levee. Centuries-old estates are also abundant, situated on vast grounds upriver from New ...

The Woodland Plantation House sits near the banks of the Mississippi River in LaPlace, La. The raised creole-style building with a rusty tin roof and wide front porch has Black owners for the first ...