During the height of antebellum agricultural production, it is estimated that there were nearly fifty thousand plantations in the slaveholding ... half of the sixteenth century, both North Carolina ...

Many plantations raised several different kinds ... % of the populations of most Southern cities. In Charleston, South Carolina, slaves and free blacks outnumbered whites. Many slaves living ...

Others have asked whether these physical remnants of slavery should be ... land on multiple contiguous plantations along the Savannah River. His expansive South Carolina estate was built on ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Magnolia Plantation and Gardens ... The 400 acres of land along South Carolina Highway 61 was acquired in the late 17th century. It was home to the Drayton Family ...

South Carolina, September 9 ... the Spanish in St. Augustine would give a positive reception to slaves escaping from Carolina plantations. But what may have actually triggered the rebellion ...

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

Thomas Ravenel is selling his longtime South Carolina home. The Southern Charm star, 56, recently listed his Brookland Plantation property on the market for $3,950,000. He originally purchased the ...

which sits on the former Singleton Plantation in St. Matthews, South Carolina. “I read one slave narrative of someone who was on that plantation which was horrific,” she previously explained ...

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and South Carolina in 1710. Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice ...