Fact Check: There Is NO Record Of Evelyn Duval, The Louisiana Plantation Owner's Wife Who Eloped With a Runaway Slave in 1847

Did Evelyn Duval, the wife of a Louisiana plantation owner, elope with a runaway slave in 1847? No, that's not true: This story is full of precise details, which lend an air of authenticity - but the ...
Catholic Standard

Nov. 15 Mass to commemorate Black Catholic History Month

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, archbishop of Washington, will celebrate a Nov. 15 Mass at 4:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic ...
Hollywood Life

Nottoway Plantation House Fire: Update on the Louisiana Historic Museum

The Nottoway Plantation House in White Castle, Louisiana, caught fire on Thursday, May 15, and the damage appears to be irreversible. Iberville Parish President Chris Daigle shared the news to ...
NOLA.com

'Indigeaux' pays tribute to enslaved women whose hands were stained blue with precious dye

Yes, Spirit. I’ll go …” recently arrived at the Whitney Plantation in Wallace. Created by Leia Lewis, an educator, artist and ...
WPLG

Woman returns boxes taken outside Plantation business, owner says

PLANTATION, Fla. – A South Florida business owner says a woman who was captured on surveillance video last week taking boxes that had just been delivered has returned the packages. Keith Louis said he ...
Reuters

How slaveholding families reasserted themselves after the Civil War

About a month after the Civil War began, a slaveholding ancestor of current U.S. Congressman French Hill seemed confident about the future. “Lincoln can’t starve me out unless he takes my land and ...
NOLA.com

Ed Pratt: Tell the full story of the plantation that burned

Many thoughts rumbled for space in my head as I watched the media’s relentless updates about the flames slowly engulfing the historic Nottoway Plantation in White Castle. First, I thought it was ...