Their efficiency was unparalleled, as demonstrated in the summer of 1619 when the first enslaved Africans arrived in America aboard ... States is regressing to its plantation roots, where the ...

click image for close-up According to Celia Davis, a slave on Pierce Butler's Hampton plantation, Fanny Kemble was a "nice white lady, very rosy, [with] clothes always got on so rich." Still a ...

While most slaves were concentrated on the plantations, there were many slaves living in urban areas or working in rural industry. Although over 90% of American slaves lived in rural areas ...

America's plantation homes below the Mason-Dixon Line ... to show what life was like for those who lived and worked there. First-hand accounts from now-deceased Richmond Bowens Jr., a long-time ...