The Gullah Geechee descended from Africans enslaved on the rice, indigo and cotton plantations. Efforts are underway to ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

The legacy of slavery and the century of legalized exclusion and oppression that followed continues to affect Black Americans ...

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

Anthony Mackie reflects on his family’s past when playing Captain America:“My father was told he had to drop out of school in eight grade to pick cotton with my grandfather, and I’m Captain America.

We, as a people, were therefore supposed to be grateful to our supposed benefactors who had saved our ancestors from a fate worse than death on the cotton ... plantations in the deep south of ...

Instead of using the secret routes along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, thousands of enslaved Black people fled to free Black communities in Southern slaveholding states.

A wind farm has been proposed for an area of pine plantations near the town of Nelson in south-west Victoria. The plantations are home to a critically endangered bat and close to a Ramsar-listed ...

Over the years, a major wisdom in Nigeria is that agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, its real foundation ...

An artifact of a $10 Confederate States of American note printed in Richmond vividly illustrates the undeniable role that ...