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 ...

Flames broke out at Nottoway Plantation in White Castle ... remaining antebellum mansion in the South but also a symbol of both the grandeur and deep complexities of our region’s past ...

The South’s biggest surviving antebellum mansion was reduced to rubble by a massive fire which was still under investigation Friday. The Nottaway Plantation ... and the deep complexities of ...

PHOTO: In this screen grab from a video, the Nottoway Plantation is shown ... antebellum mansion in the South but also a symbol of both the grandeur and the deep complexities of our region's ...

Rice agriculture enriched plantation owners to an astronomical degree; around the time of the American Revolution, the Lowcountry region of Georgia and South Carolina was one of the wealthiest ...

It was a major export in 18th-century South Carolina. Like rice and cotton, the lucrative indigo crop was dependent on the skills and labor of enslaved Africans, who tended the plantation fields ...