The McLeod Plantation Historic Site on James Island has long been on my bucket list and I was finally able to visit on my ...

During my stay in one of the Nottoway ... When he returned to Nottoway Plantation after the Civil War, most returned with him ...

That before the war ... passed during that period that indicated in a small way what the possibilities of a genuinely free republic might have been. There was talk about seizing the plantations ...

leaving Kent Plantation House as the city's only intact centuries-old structure. However, that isn't a contradiction about the city's pre-Civil War structures, because Kent House stood on what was ...

Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites, smallpox posed a grave threat in Civil War Virginia ... facing African Americans during the perilous transition from ...

Apr 13, 2018 Apr 13, 2018 Updated Sep 14, 2020 Like much of old Charleston, Fenwick Hall Plantation ... during the War of Independence and later used as a field hospital by Union forces during the ...

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