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 ...
Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, archbishop of Washington, will celebrate a Nov. 15 Mass at 4:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic ...
Nottoway plantation owner Dan Dyess will consider rebuilding the Antebellum-era mansion in White Castle, once home to a wealthy sugar planter and 155 enslaved people, after a structure fire Thursday ...
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 ...
Gwen Bankins, 61, stood in a hot, cramped cabin in Southern Maryland on a recent afternoon and thought about the lives that had passed through it. Nearly 180 years ago, her great-great grandfather - ...
Senegal: Anta Majigeen N diaye -- Havana: Zephaniah Kingsley, Jr. -- Laurel Grove: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley -- The Patriot War -- Fort George Island -- Refuge in Haiti and return to Florida -- A ...
WHITE CASTLE, La. — On the front lawn of the now-destroyed Nottoway Plantation were charred relics of atrocities gone by: a pair of flat-back rocking chairs, a wooden end table, and other sorry debris ...
Perry debuts with a remarkable narrative of slavery, indentured servitude, and a Black landowner in colonial Virginia. Freeman Andrew Cabarrus has struggled against all odds to obtain farmland and ...