Once the lifeblood of large estates and farms throughout the American South and East, antebellum plantations today serve as windows into one of the most controv

Learn basic history by visiting communities from our past. Each book is filled with photos and reconstruction artwork covering topics such as food, clothing, sh

The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. M

Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resist

The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, h