Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of two award-winning writers: novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove, tracing lineages that run from a plantation ... But Lucy's mother Virginia was nowhere ...

The roughly 400,000 acres to be awarded: "The islands from Charleston, south, the abandoned rice fields along the rivers ... The U.S. cotton industry, which depended on enslaved plantation labor in ...

It had been abandoned well over 50 years ... a preservation specialist/project manager with Preservation Virginia, said. As a working plantation, enslaved people were an important part of the ...

Literacy InterActives, Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Southside Virginia, is thrilled to announce the return of its Black History Month series for our community readers. The 2025 Black ...

Luccketti, discovered some unique English Border ware pottery during an examination of North Carolina's Bal Gra plantation ... the birth of his granddaughter Virginia, the first English child ...

Eucalyptus is now the main tree species in Portugal, covering 845,000 hectares or 26 per cent of forests, including abandoned plantations. Much of the original forests were cut down during the ...

Kate McMahon, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” – while they were ...

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While Middleton Place's gardens attract visitors who appreciate manicured order, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens appeals to lovers of wilder spaces and romantic-style gardens. Visitors come to ...

West Virginia, to save the puppies. "There is a gentleman down there that visits a lot of the mine shafts, looking for puppies and looking for abandoned animals. This is like the 10th litter he's ...

A CREEPY ghost town - dramatically abandoned by its residents over 60 ... The traces also include the spine-chilling Mulberry Grove Plantation cemetery, where the graves of enslaved people and ...