Using a system of maps that goes back nearly 150 years, we can see evidence of cemeteries on Louisiana’s former plantations. These graves are scattered along the Mississippi River where ...

Where • Laura Plantation: Louisiana’s Créole Heritage Site is located an hour north of New Orleans, or about an hour south of Baton Rouge, at 2247 Highway 18 in Vacherie, Louisiana.

Isaac Adams was born on the Gee Plantation in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, about a decade before the Civil War. This is what he remembers about Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Whitney Plantation in Louisiana casts cold look at slave trade through chilling exhibits. KEVIN McGILL, The Associated Press; Jul 28, 2017 ... Lost Cause paradigm," he said.

In the 20th century, Black farmers in the US lost 90% of their land. ... 'I'm a white woman whose family owns a former plantation in Louisiana,'" Mason said.

On January 10, at Jacques Fortier’s plantation, near what is now River Town in Kenner, federal troops forced the revolt to turn back, Bacon-Blood reports for The Times-Picayune.

However, the history of the plantation and the irony of seeking shelter in such a place was not lost on Joy and her family. “As much security and safety as the house provided us,” she said ...

The Whitney Plantation is a museum dedicated to the history of enslaved people Hurricane Ida hit the nation hard this week, but the state of Louisiana was perhaps affected the hardest. Countless ...