The descendants of one of the largest plantations in North Carolina condemned the mass texts sent to Black Americans nationwide, telling them they’ve been “selected to pick cotton” a day ...

North Carolina, two descendants of enslaved Americans walk sacred ground. Ricky Hart and Beverly Evans survey the vast expanse of Historic Stagville Plantation, where their ancestors’ whispers ...

Norcom had migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi. He writes to Johnston, a North Carolina plantation owner, telling him of the wealth to be made by speculating in land newly acquired from ...

Because of extensive settlement and cultivation, maroonage in Virginia and the northern colonies was mostly limited to the Great Dismal Swamp, on the Virginia and North Carolina border.