Behind her stood the cabin where her great-great-great-great-grandparents, Lucy and Anthony Henley, lived while enslaved at Redcliffe Plantation in South Carolina. Asked why she chose this setting ...

I remember first visiting Drayton Hall when I was writing my Civil War novel, Shades of Gray. The tour had a lasting effect ...

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 ...