He even wrote a plantation management manual detailing what he argued were the “best practices” for extracting the most from an enslaved workforce. Even as the nation devolved into civil war ...

the plantation she had written about no longer existed. Her decision to publish, though, wasn't triggered until after the start of the Civil War, in response to England's hostility toward the ...

"Confederates" engages audiences in the stories of two women from different time periods connected through experiences of ...

I’d like to tell y’all a story. A story of the South. Not of the plantations, the Civil War, or the Southern aristocracy polity oppressing the underclass. It’s a story ...

They will also learn about the relationships between those who lived on the plantation and the property's importance in the Civil War. The plantation stretches for 37 acres and features a dairy ...

Like the destroyed abbeys of 17th-century England in the English civil war, which are still all over the English landscape... the South now was a landscape with ruins -- ruined plantations ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.