A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War ...

Think of slavery and the first image that comes to mind is a 19th-century Southern cotton plantation. However, by the 1630s, slavery already existed in all 13 colonies with the first enslaved Africans ...

It’s embarrassing enough that Mississippi didn’t ratify the thirteenth amendment, which outlawed slavery, until 1995. But whoever was supposed to notify the Archivist of the United States got ...

If ever a farm had secrets, Prospect Hill is the keeper of ghosts. The former cotton plantation conceals one of the most ...

The remarkable success of the movie “Sinners” has sparked a renewed interest in how the two communities wrestled with life ...

The fire that engulfed the Nottoway Plantation House on Thursday devastated the building along the Mississippi River between ...

The local chapter of the NAACP in Jackson, Mississippi, gave posthumous honors to three civil rights trailblazers who ...

Nottoway, the oldest and largest Southern plantation house burned down, sparking debates about erased history at the ...

The owner of the space, Alexis Noble, said they extended the exhibit because it coincidentally has ties to the new ...