“Americans tend to focus on the ‘big house,’ the mansion ... hundreds of enslaved people on four plantations that once dotted Ossabaw. Many former slaves remained after the Civil War ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of ... and make secret plans. House servants would come down from the "big house" and give news of the master and mistress, or keep people laughing with ...

"If I had known there was a 'Miller Plantation,' I maybe could ... the revelation… I know that when the slaves brought food into the main house, they came up through the basement stairs ...

click image for close-up According to Celia Davis, a slave on Pierce Butler's Hampton plantation, Fanny Kemble was a "nice white lady, very rosy, [with] clothes always got on so rich." Still a ...

Mecklenburg County unveiled Thursday the new design for the former Huntersville slave plantation closed by controversy ... focus away from the Latta House, and incorporating an interpretive ...

The plantation is on the list of the US National Register of Historic Places. From the Big House to the Quarters: Slavery on Laura Plantation The Laura Plantation tour is 80% about the family’s ...