Cotton cultivation was pushing west, into the new southern territories, and plantation owners were desperate for slaves to work the crops. This selection is taken from a book entitled My Life in ...

blackness and a lack of real or concocted Arabic descent did not prevent many freeborn people and slaves from holding key positions in society and from enjoying related privileges; 2) that estate ...

A woman managed to get several books about slavery removed from the historical Varner-Hogg Plantation after complaining they ...

The reunion on Saturday was at the Rotherwood Mansion. It was not open to the public, and 125 people were on the list to ...

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The United States was once home to more than 46,000 plantations. Today, many properties remain across the American South.

He explored how the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana is working to present the full horrors of slavery while showing enslaved people were more than their chains, too. The book provides a reckoning ...

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14 Five plantation workers—Winkfield ... Sons of the Fathers: the Virginia Slavery Debates of 1831-1832 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012). 23 Chancellor Harper, Governor Hammond, Dr. Simms, and ...

It seeks to stress that we should see plantation slavery in coastal East Africa as part of the Atlantic ... Content may require purchase if you do not have access.) To save this book to your Kindle, ...