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 ...

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.

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 ...