Many Americans now are seeking to come to terms with a long legacy of racism embedded in fabric of a country that, since its colonial origins, has subjugated and oppressed Black people. During the ...

Gwendolyn Glenn: If you’ve ever wondered what life was like in the South Carolina midlands during the enslavement period in the 1700s and 1800s, Historic Brattonsville in York County has some answers.

A Charleston-based reparations task force is calling for the transfer of thousands of acres of land from three of the ...

The answer is clear about the innate inhumanity of slavery. Abuse ran rampant, everything from rape and dismemberment to separating families. Enslaved people lived in constant fear. Violence was ...

Historic plantations in the Lowcountry offer opportunities to learn about slavery By Adam Parker aparker@postandcourier.com Adam Parker has covered many beats and topics for The Post and Courier, ...

In recent years, historic plantations in Virginia have worked to refocus attention on people who were enslaved. Over the past month, Belle Grove Plantation near Winchester found a special way to do ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These statues of enslaved young boys are part of a modern-day depiction of southern plantation life at the Whitney Museum in ...

Latta Plantation remains closed following backlash against a Juneteenth-timed event advertised as highlighting the plight of “white refugees” in the aftermath of the Civil War. After the event was ...

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. Located on nearly 2,000 acres along the banks of the Potomac River, Stratford ...