The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

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 ...

Vernon, studies the domestic life, foodways, and religious practices of the residents of George Washington's plantation, with a special interest in the slave community. Excerpted with permission ...

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 ...

This book has two goals. First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy ...

"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 back in the spotlight as their 2012 plantation wedding controversy re-emerges amid a legal ...