BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Antebellum Southern plantations were built on the backs of enslaved people, and many of those plantations hold places of honor on the National Register of Historic Places — but ...
After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...
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A pre-Civil War general’s grave survived 166 years

Today we visit a historic Georgia city cemetery to find the grave of General Henry H. Lowe, who died in 1854 and played a major role in early Georgia politics, militia leadership, and plantation ...
After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana ...