Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, according to archaeologists who investigated a 16th-century sugar mill and ...

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 ...

Because it’s one of the few places to get South African grocery products and meat, business was going so well at Dutchy’s Gourmet Sausages they shut down the Plantation store. Wait for it. And opened ...

Medoune Ndiaye stood up in a room at Kingsley Plantation and, in his native Wolof language, began reciting, from memory, the names of the rulers of the Kingdom of Jolof. He went on for many minutes: ...

It’s October, and there’s a chill in the air. Could it be the weather, or are the restless spirits of Hilton Head’s tragic ...

A West African chef hosts a dinner at the Magnolia Plantation and Gardens on March 2. Fatmata Opala is a Sierra Leonean chef who lives near Harrisburg, Virginia. Opala will prepare a traditional ...

On Tuesday, there was a relaunch of the African American Heritage Trail in Louisiana.Much of the African American history in the state and across the country remains untold.State leaders said it is ...

'Lost' lives of African Americans to be featured in SC historic plantation site's redesign By Bo Petersen [email protected] Science and environment reporter. Author of Washing Our Hands in the ...

A new report by Bread for all, Alliance Sud, and the German Network for Tax Justice has accused Belgian-French multinational Socfin, which operates rubber and palm oil plantations across West Africa, ...

The North Carolina plantation’s Saturday evening event promised to share stories of its “former bondsmen” on June 19 — a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. “Hear how they ...