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Nottoway Plantation just burned down, so we're looking into its history and other plantations where the most brutal chattel slavery occurred.
Jo Banner, a co-founder of The Descendants Project, a nonprofit organization that focuses on eradicating the legacies of ...
LAPLACE, La. — One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history is Black-owned for the first time. Over 200 years ago, scores of slaves escaped a plantation in LaPlace and marched ...
Historic Nottoway Plantation, the largest antebellum mansion ... The property overlooked the Mississippi River. Randolph first arrived in Louisiana in 1841 and began by planting cotton, but ...