The Historic Smithfield Plantation Home is located west of the Virginia Tech Duck Pond. Built between 1772 and 1774, it was once the home of the Preston family and now hosts events such as weddings ...

The Whitney Plantation stands as a profound monument to the history of slavery in the Southern United States. Located in Wallace, Louisiana, Whitney Plantation Tours offers a unique educational ...

There are a dozen restored antebellum mansions and plantations along the west bank of the Mississippi River, on the River Road outside of New Orleans, and they are among the most popular tourist day ...

WALLACE, La. (AP) — Ceramic sculptures of hollow-eyed slave children haunt the Whitney Plantation, west of New Orleans, where owner John Cummings has infused the traditional antebellum plantation tour ...

A short time each year, visitors can see the graves of former plantation landowners and their slaves buried on the property ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Four major websites used for wedding planning are revising their policies on content referencing former slave plantations, responding to an advocacy group’s campaign urging the ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...

Amy Potter receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Derek H. Alderman receives funding from National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities. Such efforts raise ...

There are a dozen restored antebellum mansions and plantations along the west bank of the Mississippi River, on the River Road outside of New Orleans, and they are among the most popular tourist day ...