The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of Southern whites did not even own slaves; of those who ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

Instead, in some rooms you’ll find the silhouette of real people who were enslaved on the grounds of Woodland, allowing their ...

For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story ...

Yet academics and the public continue to associate plantations largely with the antebellum South and thus with the history of ...

An Antebellum Slave Quarter Site Adapted for Military Use during the Civil War at Kingsmill Plantation, James City County, Virginia Archaeological investigations of a site at Kingsmill Resort—best ...

¹ Today, only a small fraction of these remain, and most are significantly altered from their antebellum state. These plantations represented estates ranging in magnitude from moderately sized farms ...

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market ... Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Woodward, C. Vann, ed.

In the antebellum South, slaves brought an average return of about ... 2001 No industry depends on slavery in the way that the plantations did in the times of the Atlantic slave trade ...

The area's antebellum plantations offer a look ... travelers will explore the plantation in depth, view slave quarters, see the great house and much more. Tourgoers commend their drivers and ...

Your selfhood was denied." - Catherine Clinton, historian The majority of slaves lived on cotton plantations, where they often worked under the supervision of black drivers and white overseers ...

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 ...