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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Throughout the South, people can visit plantations and other destinations tied to slavery, but the connections aren’t always clear. They can be in surprising places and look nothing like expected.

Columnist Voices from a slave plantation February 19, 2023 at 2:30 a.m. by BROOKE GREENBERG ... Up in Connecticut, a famous piano teacher preserves a rare artifact of Arkansas history: four letters ...

WILSON COUNTY, Texas – A letter from a former slave who lived on a Wilson County plantation in the mid-1800s offers a new look into how she adjusted to life after slavery was abolished. Former KSAT ...