Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, according to archaeologists who investigated a 16th-century sugar mill and ...
Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...
Video of the Nottoway Plantation fire sparks jubilation. It’s about anger and pain over slavery, too
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 ...
"In the old days, you would open the door, and it would be a hive of activity. Now it's all closed down," sighs 89-year-old Agida Lucia. Once cocoa was shipped out to the world from Agostinho Neto, a ...
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Whitney Plantation tours: Unveiling the history of Louisiana's antebellum South
The Whitney Plantation stands as a profound monument to the history of slavery in the Southern United States. Located in ...
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Huge African American cemetery found on an old plantation hill
Deep in the woods of Troup County, Georgia, we explore the Childs–Mielle–Crouch Cemetery — a massive plantation-era burial ground with a rare brick grave house and hundreds of graves surrounding the ...
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