The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of Southern whites did not even own slaves; of those who ...

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit regarding a developer and their plans to build on a former plantation site. The suit claims ...

Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds seem unable to catch a break with their every move both past and present coming under scrutiny ...

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are facing criticism online over their 2012 wedding on a plantation linked with the dark ...

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ 2012 wedding at Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens in South Carolina has come under renewed ...

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are back in the spotlight as their 2012 plantation wedding controversy re-emerges amid a legal ...