The history we learned in school often painted enslavement as a system people endured passively, waiting for abolition to ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - One of the most sophisticated slave rebellions in our nation’s history was planned for July 14, 1822. It would come to be known as Vesey’s Rebellion, organized by former ...

Juneteenth, the holiday that's been referred to as America's second Independence Day, commemorates when the last group of enslaved people in Texas learned they were officially free. Decades before the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The rooms inside Woodland Plantation in LaPlace are nearly bare, and for good reason. There’s nothing to hide the whole history of what plantation life was. “They think ...

The Louisiana plantation home where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began has Black owners for the first time. They say the 1811... Louisiana plantation where historic slave revolt ...

July 14 marks the date of Denmark Vesey’s planned rebellion 201 years ago. Since the dawn of slavery in this country, “there has been slave resistance.” In an original study, historian Herbert ...

“The Grim Work of Death” by Christopher Myers. Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Copyright Christopher ...

Name, face, body / Kenneth S. Greenberg -- The construction of The confessions of Nat Turner / David F. Almendinger, Jr. -- The event / Herbert Aptheker -- Covenant in Jerusalem / Thomas C. Parramore ...

Nat Turner, the most famous slave rebel in American history, has always been a mysterious, troubling and important figure. In both history and in popular memory, few names in the long American ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A former slave’s attempt to lead a rebellion in Charleston during the summer of 1822 would forever alter life in the Lowcountry, even though the uprising never occurred.

LAPLACE, La. — Jo Banner is excited to show the newly acquired Woodland Plantation House near the banks of the Mississippi River. “We have still a lot of work to do, but I think for the home to be ...