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 ...

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 ...

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

Under the southern Slave Codes ... slaves formed strong communities within the plantation's boundaries. Isolated from the larger world, these communities of families supported each other ...