"These slaveowners, these rebels, have led the South into the Civil War ... to be the nature of the Southern economy after the war. If the plantations remain intact, it'll still be an aristocratic ...

We took our metal detectors to an 1850s plantation house in Mississippi—and things got weird fast. As we crawled beneath the ...

Historians discuss labor relations between former slaves and former masters after the Civil War. Ed Ayers ... Soon that hot Southern sun's going to come baking down, and if those plants haven ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.