New Orleans, LA — Dr. Antoinette Harrell, known as the “Slavery Detective of the South,” is on a mission to interview and document the oral histories of people who still live on plantations to this ...

A Mississippi city has unveiled a historical marker to honor the story of an African prince who spent 40 years enslaved on a Natchez plantation. The marker for Prince Abdul ...

Sharon D. Wright Austin has produced a comprehensive study of rural Mississippi, focusing on its traditional Delta “Black Belt.” That long sliver of fertile crescent located along the Mississippi ...

"The magic of the old houses of Louisiana"--Jacket. Text on verso facing each photograph. Trepagnier House, St. Charles Parish -- Ormond Plantation, St. Charles Parish -- Parlange Plantation, Pointe ...

"I remember when I couldn't vote," Dr. Robert H. Smith Sr. said. A 99-year-old man who was born the son of a sharecropper on a plantation is making sure his voice is being heard in this year's ...