WALLACE, Louisiana — Every year, thousands of people visit the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, to learn about the history of slavery in the state and around the country. Starting in January ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

Archaeologists believe that plantation slavery may have taken root on a 16th-century sugar estate on the tiny African island of São Tomé. The two volcanic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were ...

Author, Sade Green, pictured with burial site historical marker, which reads "Today and always, we honor the enslaved Hintons of the Midway Plantation, known and unknown, buried here in unmarked ...

BALTIMORE -- The greenhouse on the Maryland plantation where famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought: Its furnace was built by ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — "Living Legacies," a celebration of Black history, took place Saturday at Magnolia Plantation & Gardens. Guided by historians and artists from the Slave Dwelling Project, the ...