Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors walk outside the main plantation house at the Whitney Plantation in Edgard, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) Louisiana ...

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

A farm in the Paraíba valley of Rio de Janeiro state in southern Brazil has been restored as a slave plantation and is now open to the public. While this isn't any big news, the fact that black people ...

LAPLACE, La. — Jo Banner is excited to show the newly acquired Woodland Plantation House near the banks of the Mississippi River. “We have still a lot of work to do, but I think for the home to be ...

Today we visit the Ihagee Plantation in Alabama, where an old slave burial ground sits separated from the family cemetery—yet it may hold just as many graves - if not more. Most burials here have no ...

"I attach a list of the books available with the publisher's description of each," Haas wrote in an April email noting books available at the nearby Levi Jordan historical plantation. "You may assess ...

"I believe those holidays were among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholders of keeping down the spirit of insurrection among the slaves." --Frederick Douglass On Dec. 20, 1837, just ...

Feminist icon Ani DiFranco's "Righteous Retreat" seemed like a good idea: for just over $1,000, fans could spend four days hanging out with DiFranco and learning how to "develop one's singular ...

Louisiana's Whitney Plantation—open since 2014 as a museum dedicated to education about the legacy of slavery in the U.S.—lost its federal grants as a result of Trump's attack on DEI. Unfortunately, ...

The Louisiana plantation home where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began has Black owners for the first time. They say the 1811... Louisiana plantation where historic slave revolt ...