In satellite images, Georgia’s former rice plantations stand out like misplaced puzzle pieces with their grid-like systems of ditches and canals abutting areas of undulating tidal channels.

In the early 20th century, baseball was quite the popular sport amongst South Georgia plantations. “The local plantations here in the area each had their own baseball teams. They played each other.

Pecan Ridge Plantation is a family operation headed by (left to right) Rob Cohen and his wife, Rebecca, Mollie Cohen and her husband Eric. Black lab Tate, the company's truffle hunter, is at Eric ...

The sale would thereafter be known as "the weeping time." The owner of the slaves, Pierce Butler, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier, along with his brother John.

Excerpts from the 1863 publication by Mortimer Thomson, What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation. . . The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for ...

The plantation lost $134,006 in fiscal 2003, the most recent year for which figures are available. Parks officials insist the sites are not intended to make money and should be kept open.