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In the Hulu drama, Brown and Ernest Kingsley Jr. shed new light on the slave narrative by way of a gifted young boy's ...
The Louisiana plantation home where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began has Black owners for the first time. They say the 1811 uprising can inspire a new generation to fight racism.
African Americans had likely known themselves to be legally free before General Order No. 3, but acting on this knowledge was difficult.
After the nation’s largest antebellum mansion, Nottoway Plantation, burned to the ground in an unexpected and devastating fire, the owners are sharing what’s next.
A historic Black schoolhouse needs a facelift. Remembering a local hero by restoring of a 1930s-era plantation school.
The Louisiana plantation home where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began has Black owners for the first time. They say the 1811 uprising can inspire a new generation to fight racism.
When Nottoway Plantation burned, columnist Ed Pratt heard the voices of the people who lived there. All of them.
Owner of ruined Nottoway Plantation in La. hopes to rebuild. The home became a museum in the 1980s opening its grand doors, ... “Some call it a tragedy, but for many Black folks, ...
Caribbean plantation owners feared the larger black population would rise up in rebellion. Slave Laws were designed to subdue the enslaved population. Back to top. Test what you have learned.
Owners of Nottoway Plantation express desire to rebuild after fire, insist they are ‘non-racist’ Last week, the nation’s largest antebellum mansion burned down in what authorities think was ...
A common phrase in the Black community when I grew up was that those slaves, then later plantation workers, “worked from can’t see (in the morning) to can’t see (at night).” ...