Gen. Slocum's Order on Leased Plantations. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

We went magnet fishing at a historic plantation site once owned by Mississippi’s richest man in the 1830s. Burned by Union forces during the Civil War, this location has a deep and complex past ...

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The Louisiana plantation home where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began has Black owners for the first time. They say the 1811 uprising can inspire a new generation to fight racism.

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the ...

Mississippi’s Republican majority in the state Legislature has put forth a slew of bills in recent months to put the majority-Black capital of Jackson under a white-led superstructure. Under the ...

Some plantations in the South are finally dropping the hoop skirts and mint juleps and telling a different story — from the perspective of those who were enslaved.

Education: Storm in Mississippi. 4 minute read. TIME. November 7, 1949 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... a steel company, a ranch and 38 Mississippi plantations on which he had found oil. Tawdry Strings.

Black Families Still Living on Plantations in Mississippi. New Orleans, LA — Dr. Antoinette Harrell, known as the “Slavery Detective of the South,” is on a mission to interview and document ...

It was known as Queen’s Farm in Scott, Mississippi. Black sharecroppers primarily worked it. But first, some context.

The plantation home was constructed by slaves between 1859 and 1861, and 30 years later, ... (Whether you believe in the paranormal or not, the history of any Mississippi plantation is scary enough.) ...