The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

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 ...

Cultural and Heritage Museums opens the enslaved cemetery at Historic Brattonsville on Saturday, where hundreds of buried ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Preservation work has begun on a Frederick County farmhouse that predates the Civil War and sits on land where an influential ...