Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand under the watchful eyes of armed guards on horseback. He ...
Introduction: Home in slavery -- Demarcating home and labor : Montpelier Plantation, Virginia -- Concealing for privacy and protection : Stagville Plantation, North Carolina -- Rooting one's people : ...
NMAF copy 39088019259811 gift from the collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent ...
The history of slavery in America is one of the most documented, studied, and also most misunderstood subjects in the ...
I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove Plantation in Moore, S.C., have never researched the descendants of the slaves who ...
The public reaction to the burning of the Nottoway plantation, the largest remaining antebellum-era structure in the South, has been mixed. While many, particularly Black Americans, celebrate the ...