One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history ... land and lives of the Black descendant community located in Louisiana's River Parishes. The Banners said that the mission ...

I desire some information about my mother. The last time I saw her was in Alexandria, Virginia, about the year 1852 or 1853.

Jesuit priests sold 272 slaves to Louisiana plantation owners in 1838 to help fund a church mission called Georgetown University. Over the weekend, descendants of the GU272 met in Maringouin, LA to ...

In Louisiana, about 1 out of every 100 people ... Two centuries ago, New Orleans was the epicenter of the U.S. domestic slave trade, where policing and incarceration practices developed to uphold ...

the migration of slaves to the lower South increased the slave population in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas from 530,404 to 943,881. Even with this enormous ...

From Washington, he was taken first to New Orleans, then to multiple plantations in central Louisiana. Scenes from Northup's memoir, Twelve Years a Slave Public domain via Wikimedia Commons A man ...

The Descendants Project was established by Joy and her twin sister and co-founder, Dr. Jo Banner, to safeguard the Black descendant community in Louisiana’s River Parishes, also said they worked with ...

A man born into slavery in Alexandria, Louisiana became a journalist, preacher, and the editor of The Tribune in New Orleans before moving across the nation to serve two causes: Jesus and equality.