Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

On their arrival in the New World, enslaved Africans would be unloaded from the ships and sold to plantation owners. After surviving confinement in the slave fortresses of the West African coast ...

Cotton cultivation was pushing west, into the new southern territories, and plantation owners were desperate for slaves to work the crops. This selection is taken from a book entitled My Life in ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Robert Adams descends from slave owners. And last month, the men dined at the same table, on the very plantation where Adams' ancestors once owned Steward's, ABC News reports. In fact ...

Plantation owners whose slaves ran away frequently placed runway slave advertisements in local newspapers. Such ads often included a person's physical description, likely location or destination ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised for his family’s past after disclosing that his ancestor was a slave owner ...

“All descendants of white plantation owners who benefited from the slave trade should be asked to pay reparations, including Cumberbatch's family,” David Denny, secretary-general of the ...

The year before her wedding, the plantation was prominently mentioned ... “Women of inherent social distinction … Soooo, ...