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

The Delta plantation system started in ... of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta became the richest cotton ...

Over 200 years ago, scores of slaves escaped a plantation in LaPlace and marched along the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. Now the land once used for the uprising, is owned by the Black-led ...

such as Mississippi and Alabama. 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 ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday. “Enslavement in Alachua County” was hosted at Historic Haile Homestead ...