Excerpts from the 1863 publication by Mortimer Thomson, What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation. . . The ... That night, not a steamer left that Southern port, not a train of cars ...

Those allowances – from the King of England until 1776 and then Georgia’s governors after the American Colonies declared their independence – enabled the establishment of rice plantations ...

At the end of a daylong hunting trip in the Flathead Valley last November, it occurred to Jim Vashro that he’d crisscrossed tracts of land owned by three separate private entities with open access ...

She says all Black Americans, not just those with family ties to the plantation, should learn about it: “Our people need to know what struggle we had.” For the communities around Georgia’s ...

In 1828, Roswell King, Jr. was asked to contribute knowledge of "Southern Agriculture and plantation economy" to The Southern Agriculturist. Roswell King Jr, who along with his father had managed ...