It’s summer in Arkansas and members of the Lafayette family arrive after the brood’s patriarch has died. They are ready to ...

She had been working on her journal -- a revealing look at southern plantations in which she detailed the injustices of slavery -- but another two decades would pass before her journal would be ...

When I was 11, my school took a field trip to Walnut Grove Plantation, one of the oldest homes in South Carolina. The way the guides explained it, Scotch-Irish immigrants Charles and Mary Moore ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.

Great Southern (previously Great Southern Plantations) was a tax-effective (MIS) bluegum plantation business founded by John Young and Helen Sewell which expanded in wine, almonds, cattle and other ...