A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United State's South, plantation homes and properties are major attractions for both tourists and history buffs, and these ...
The history of chattel slavery in the American South is not an easy subject to examine. The Lowcountry’s former plantations, where that history is experienced most acutely, are places of contradiction ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The rooms inside Woodland Plantation in LaPlace are nearly bare, and for good reason. There’s nothing to hide the whole history of what plantation life was. “They think ...
CHARLESTON, SOAKING IN ITS BEAUTY AND HOSPITALITY, IT’S EASY TO FORGET THE DARKER CHAPTERS THAT UNFOLDED HERE. THE STORY OF THE ENSLAVED IN CHARLESTON FROM THE SHORES OF AFRICA TO THE AUCTION BLOCK OF ...
HONOKAA (HawaiiNewsNow) - There was a time “when sugar was king” in Honoka’a on Hawaii Island, and all life centered around the Hamakua Sugar Company and plantation life. “Every Christmas, like now, ...
WHITE CASTLE, La. — On the front lawn of the now-destroyed Nottoway Plantation were charred relics of atrocities gone by: a pair of flat-back rocking chairs, a wooden end table, and other sorry debris ...
Visitors often want to see more than one side of Louisiana, but planning that on their own can be challenging”— Milton ...
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. and Maui’s plantation history will be recognized through a “Talk Story” session from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. today at the Maui Historical Society, Hale Ho’ike’ike Bailey ...