Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

Visitors to Hunter’s Home in Park Hill stepped back in time not just to tour Oklahoma’s only remaining antebellum plantation home, but to experience a hands-on lesson in heritage agriculture.

A documentary film about Natchez debuts Monday at the Tribeca Film Festival. However, few here seem to know much about it.

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With its 200 windows and 165 doors fashioned by enslaved craftsmen and put in place with enslaved labor, Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was the South’s largest antebellum mansion, or “big ...

Antebellum-era plantations were built under grueling conditions on the backs of enslaved people, and many are now sites of honor on the National Register of Historic Places. Some plantations try ...

EDISTO ISLAND — Capt. Daniel Townsend fell in love with Hephzibah Jenkins when she was a 16-year-old South Carolina beauty. He asked her father’s permission to marry her — "if I am able to ...

The largest remaining antebellum plantation mansion in the South has burned to the ground. Fire crews worked 18 hours late last week trying to extinguish the fire that eventually engulfed the ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The largest remaining antebellum plantation mansion in the South has burned to the ...

Michael Johnson New Orleans Advocate The largest remaining antebellum plantation mansion in the South has burned to the ground. Fire crews worked 18 hours late last week trying to extinguish the ...

In the mid-18th century, "35 pieces of chintz" from John Isles of Bristol were dispatched to John Savage & Co. in South Carolina aboard the sloop Rebecca. These lengths of fine glazed and printed ...

Historic Nottoway Plantation in White Castle was destroyed by fire on May 15, 2025 Once the South's largest antebellum mansion, it was built by enslaved people in 1858 The new owner, Louisiana ...