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 ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the ...

The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.

The NAACP in Jackson, Mississippi, gave posthumous honors to three civil rights trailblazers, who "sacrificed everything" for ...

The circle represents people, and the three waves represents bodies of water: the Atlantic, Pacific and the Mississippi River. These three bodies of water is what slave ships used to get Black people ...

Information on the slave trade is displayed at Stanton Hall ... plus the Magnolia Bluffs Casino overlooking the Mississippi River. The Natchez Trace Parkway is a scenic parkway and cycling route ...

The last Monday of April in Mississippi and Alabama May 10 in ... U.S. following the election of Abraham Lincoln, who was against slavery. Britannica.com explains that the Southern economy of ...

The Mississippi River is a mighty waterway ... Once home to Forks in the Road, the second-largest slave market in the Deep South, the city was also the birthplace of the Natchez Deacons for ...

Source: Mississippi Secretary of State's Office Mike Pence Calls for Donald Trump Reversal—'Warning Signs Are Flashing' Secret messages engraved on 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk in Paris ...

Like B.B. King, one of his many musical influences, 73-year-old Johnson was born on a Mississippi cotton plantation and was a sharecropper, a tenant farming system he calls “modernized slavery.” ...

We meet unforgettable characters like Frederick Bruce Thomas, who was the son of a Mississippi slave and who ran a dazzling dance joint (more on that in next week’s “Book of the Week”), Trotsky in ...