(The Root) — In the 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro column entitled “Why Was Cotton ‘King’?” I described how blacks were commodified by the plantation economy in slaveholding states. For many, the ...

I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove Plantation in Moore, S.C., have never researched the descendants of the slaves who ...

Prologue -- Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast -- Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family -- Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family -- "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane ...

BALTIMORE -- The greenhouse on the Maryland plantation where famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought: Its furnace was built by ...

Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ...