This large house was located at 2011 Cherry St. and was the home of John Wesley Vick, the second son of Vicksburg’s founder, ...

We chose the most famous book set in every state. The list features various genres, from historical fiction and thrillers to ...

Mansions are fascinating, oozing with extravagant opulence or dripping with Southern charm and magnificent splendor, like the ...

The following report is part of a Verite News series: "Devil's Bargain: How the slave trade built and sustained New Orleans" ...

Shutterstock Cane River National Heritage Area The Cane River flows through northwest Louisiana where Caddo Indians once ...

Magnolia, the city that stands to benefit the most from the coming southwest Arkansas lithium boom, has always charmed me. Col. M.G. Kelso surveyed and laid out the city, modeling it after Oxford in ...

Many went to cotton fields in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi or sugar plantations in Louisiana. Some traveled as far as Texas, where plantations were expanding. This forced movement spread enslaved ...

Louisiana dropped in the state rankings from 15th to 38th, according to a U.S. Department of Commerce report released Friday.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A dye transfer photograph of rural life outside of Belzoni, Mississippi by Marion Post Wolcott. At a daytime muddy ...

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I believe the sample of "heavy negro cotton" in this book was sold to enslavers in the region buying clothing for enslaved people. Many different people were living within trading distance of Fort ...