Before her was ... is too appealing. The Civil War ended slavery, and Reconstruction transformed America, but neither eradicated white supremacy. Historic plantations across the South are ...

She had been working on her journal -- a revealing look at southern plantations in which she detailed the injustices of slavery -- but another two decades would pass before her journal would be ...

Apr 13, 2018 Apr 13, 2018 Updated Sep 14, 2020 Like much of old Charleston, Fenwick Hall Plantation ... War of Independence and later used as a field hospital by Union forces during the Civil ...

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.

whose forebears were among the hundreds of enslaved people on four plantations that once dotted Ossabaw. Many former slaves remained after the Civil War, as sharecroppers, before resettling on the ...

The Natchez tribe built impressive ceremonial mounds at the Grand Village and nearby Emerald Mound, the second-largest ...