This book has two goals. First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy ...

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

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Prince documented her life in her autobiography ... made up of formerly enslaved people who had escaped slavery and lived freely away from plantations, often in mountainous regions.

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Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

While many historic sites have slavery exhibits, the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana makes slavery its central focus. Photo: Daymon Gardner for The Wall Street Journal ...

Brutal physical punishment, psychological abuse and endless hours of hard labor without compensation drove many slaves to risk their lives to escape plantation life. The death of a master usually ...

Vernon, studies the domestic life, foodways, and religious practices of the residents of George Washington's plantation, with a special interest in the slave community. Excerpted with permission ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became a popular refuge for slaves fleeing the horrors of plantation life in the American South. In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the ...

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds seem unable to catch a break with their every move both past and present coming under scrutiny ...