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 ...

It was his weekends as a Civil War re-enactor that urged Joseph McGill to campaign for the conservation of slave cabins. Alan Hawes At a bygone plantation in coastal Georgia, Joseph McGill Jr ...

But this free elite would come to play a major role in the turbulent politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Initially, the new focus on the social and cultural aspects of plantation life ...

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 ...

Gone were slavery, the plantation system and ... Indeed, high drama marked the Civil War’s last months. In January, Congress ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery.

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 ...

After the Civil War, those torn from loved ones and family members by slaveowners placed newspaper ads in the hope of reunion ...

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