Built in 1782, Destrehan Plantation is the oldest documented plantation still surviving in the Mississippi River Valley. I visited this living history museum and loved that they recognized, not only ...

The Louisiana plantation home where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began has Black owners for the first time. They say the 1811... Louisiana plantation where historic slave revolt ...

Mississippi is in the middle of Confederate Heritage Month, and state workers will get a day off later in April for Confederate Memorial Day. Documents explaining why Mississippi left the Union leave ...

Introduction : cotton, sugar, coffee, and the making of nineteenth-century slave plantations -- Part i. Making landscapes : new Atlantic commodity frontiers -- The lower Mississippi Valley cotton ...

LAPLACE, La. — Jo Banner is excited to show the newly acquired Woodland Plantation House near the banks of the Mississippi River. “We have still a lot of work to do, but I think for the home to be ...