A Louisiana plantation has new owners ... Zoom in: Hundreds of people reenacted the slave rebellion in 2019. What's happening: Jo Banner tells Axios the nonprofit plans to use Woodland Plantation ...

Over two centuries ago, hundreds of enslaved individuals fled from a plantation in LaPlace, and embarked on a march along the Mississippi River toward New Orleans which led to an uprising. This ...

Northup’s memoir told the story of his kidnapping and years of enslavement in Louisiana. The book became a national best ...

Her young mistress married, and took her to Louisiana. Her little boy ... the qualities that made it so hard for him to be a plantation slave. They put him into a rough box, and buried him ...

The rest of Louisiana is populated primarily ... or Episcopalians. Their plantations depended on a large slave population, a fact reflected in the high concentration of rural blacks who inhabit ...

To commemorate the 1811 German Coast slave revolt, the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history, dozens of African Americans ...

While many historic sites have slavery exhibits, the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana makes slavery its central focus. Photo: Daymon Gardner for The Wall Street Journal ...

“When you’re interpreting Louisiana slavery,” says Hatfield, “it’s not better and it’s not worse—it’s just different.” When cotton prices soared, plantation owners were extremely well off and able to ...

Slavery was officially abolished ... Citizens' Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana - accepted enslaved people as collateral for loans. If plantation owners defaulted on loan payment the banks took ...