No injuries were reported. Dyess only recently bought the home, after the previous owner was killed in a car accident, he said. Nottoway was a sugar plantation operated and constructed by slave ...

Last week, the nation’s largest antebellum mansion burned down in what authorities think was an electrical fire. After the nation’s […] ...

“Tonight my family and I were dinner guests at Wavering Place, an old plantation founded in 1768 near Hopkins, South Carolina where four generations of my grandmothers lived and worked as slaves ...

Jo Banner, a co-founder of The Descendants Project, a nonprofit organization that focuses on eradicating the legacies of ...

It started when they wounded white plantation owner Manuel Andry, killed his son, and commandeered weapons and other supplies. Historical accounts say the military-style revolt was led by a Creole ...

The owner of the largest remaining antebellum mansion in the South — which burned to the ground this week — hopes the 166-year-old Louisiana home will rise again. Fire officials believe the cause of ...