New Orleans, LA — Dr. Antoinette Harrell, known as the “Slavery Detective of the South,” is on a mission to interview and document the oral histories of people who still live on plantations to this ...

A Mississippi city has unveiled a historical marker to honor the story of an African prince who spent 40 years enslaved on a Natchez plantation. The marker for Prince Abdul ...

Sharon D. Wright Austin has produced a comprehensive study of rural Mississippi, focusing on its traditional Delta “Black Belt.” That long sliver of fertile crescent located along the Mississippi ...

This adventure took us to a Mississippi plantation house built in 1850, where metal detecting revealed more than just old coins and relics. As we crawled under the structure, things took a bizarre ...

"The magic of the old houses of Louisiana"--Jacket. Text on verso facing each photograph. Trepagnier House, St. Charles Parish -- Ormond Plantation, St. Charles Parish -- Parlange Plantation, Pointe ...