Behind her stood the cabin where her great-great-great-great-grandparents, Lucy and Anthony Henley, lived while enslaved at ...

These plantations represented estates ranging in magnitude from ... 7 First explored by the Spanish in the first half of the sixteenth century, both North Carolina and South Carolina stemmed from ...

thousands of Africans were being imported each year to the colony of South Carolina, where they were forced to work in clearing land and cultivating the rapidly expanding rice plantations ...

The Black Maroons of Florida, also known as Black Seminoles, were a community derived from runaway slaves who integrated into American Indian culture.

This small island is home to a community of Gullah people, who are the descendants of enslaved West Africans brought to South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and Georgia to work on plantations.

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice and indigo plantations, and by 1720 slaves made up a majority of South Carolina's population. Rep. Nancy Mace Accuses ...

Little did the leaves that legendarily floated into an open pot of boiling water next to Chinese Emperor Shennong in the 28th century B.C. know they would change the world. The combination of ...