Throughout the South, people can visit plantations and other destinations tied to slavery, but the connections aren’t always clear. They can be in surprising places and look nothing like ...

Slavery in America was the fuel for a global cotton economy. The spread of plantations in the Deep South led to the forced migration known today as slavery's Second Middle Passage.

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of ...

Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South, where scores of enslaved Africans labored.

“The Prophets,” by Robert Jones Jr. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) In Robert Jones Jr.’s “The Prophets,” Samuel and Isaiah are two enslaved men in love on a Deep South plantation. They spend ...

A fire that ravaged Nottoway Plantation, one of the Deep South's largest pre-Civil War mansions, sparked a wave of mixed reactions online, ranging from jubilation to dismay. The Louisiana landmark ...

Destrehan started out in 1787 as a Creole plantation that later underwent a Greek Revival makeover. The site of a famous trial, Destrehan features a detailed exhibit of the 1811 Slave Revolt.

He dwelled on Evergreen in particular because it is the only plantation in the Deep South that features multiple original, extant slave cabins — 22 of them, spread out over the grounds.

By FERNANDA FIGUEROA and AARON MORRISON. After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of ...