Historians, of course, have long made good use of various records, from plantation inventories and escaped slave advertisements to personal narratives collected by obscure abolition societies.

Stratford Plantation, Virginia. Photography by Amy Connolly/Stratford Hall Plantation Handmade pipes, like the ones excavated at the Cliffs Plantation at Stratford Hall (above), date to the 1650s ...

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She is among a group who started a petition urging city hall to rename Plantation Road. She says the decision to keep the original name ignores the hurt the word causes to the Black community.

Members of London's Black community have started an online petition that's gained hundreds of signatures, urging city politicians to reverse their decision to not rename Plantation Road.

With its 200 windows and 165 doors fashioned by enslaved craftsmen and put in place with enslaved labor, Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was the South’s largest antebellum mansion, or “big ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage ...

The cabin was disassembled by an expert wood worker, the pieces numbered, moved from the plantation, then assembled inside the museum. There also is some Bleak Hall furniture on display.

Hephzibah Townsend, the wife of an Edisto Island cotton plantation owner, helped build a church for enslaved people. She also donated a silver chalice for a communion cap. Over a century later ...

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds got married in 2012 at one quote picturesque, but deeply contentious, wedding venues in the U.S.- the Boone Hall Plantation in South Carolina. Known for its sprawling ...