It’s summer in Arkansas and members of the Lafayette family arrive after the brood’s patriarch has died. They are ready to ...

She had been working on her journal -- a revealing look at southern plantations in which she detailed the injustices of slavery -- but another two decades would pass before her journal would be ...

When I was 11, my school took a field trip to Walnut Grove Plantation, one of the oldest homes in South Carolina. The way the guides explained it, Scotch-Irish immigrants Charles and Mary Moore ...

Read full article: Plantation PD: Student arrested after threatening to kill teacher, other students A student has been arrested after a teacher at South Plantation High School received a text ...

But the masters and slaves never approached equality. The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.