NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Against the modern backdrop of oil refineries, strip malls and gated communities, hundreds of reenactors will gather Friday in southeastern Louisiana to remember a time when slavery ...

The Woodland Plantation House sits near the banks of the Mississippi River in LaPlace, La. The raised creole-style building with a rusty tin roof and wide front porch has Black owners for the first ...

A viral Annabelle meme about a burning plantation uncovers hidden history; linking horror tropes to Black spirituality, and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The rooms inside Woodland Plantation in LaPlace are nearly bare, and for good reason. There’s nothing to hide the whole history of what plantation life was. “They think ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Along the Mississippi River sits a winding road; its curvature is aligned with the levee. Centuries-old estates are also abundant, situated on vast grounds upriver from New ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — As the campaign to quash the teachings of America’s brutal history of slavery intensifies, Joseph McGill Jr. has waged a counterattack by way of a poignant three-day conference in ...

Students enter the Treme Villa Meilleur New Orleans African American Museum in New Orleans in February 2008. The museum is on the list of places that Louisiana tourism officials unveiled as the first ...

*For the first time in history, one of the most extensive plantations associated with a slave revolt in Louisiana is now Black-owned. More than two centuries ago, numerous enslaved individuals fled a ...

July 14 marks the date of Denmark Vesey’s planned rebellion 201 years ago. Since the dawn of slavery in this country, “there has been slave resistance.” In an original study, historian Herbert ...

Mat Callahan is a musician and insurgent historian whose latest project is, “Songs of Slavery and Emancipation.” The book and double-album were released on June 17 by Jalopy Records in New York and a ...

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... Louisiana plantation where historic slave revolt ...