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 ...

After the Civil War millions of freed Black people were ... by the number of African American refugees that left the plantations and fled into the city and was ill prepared to care for them." ...

Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner dedication its Truth and Reconciliation Garden, honoring the enslaved on the grounds when it ...

We took our metal detectors to an 1850s plantation house in Mississippi—and things got weird fast. As we crawled beneath the ...

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.