Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, ...

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 ...

The blood-drenched history that gave the city of Sugar Land, Texas, its name showed its face earlier this year, when a school construction crew discovered the remains of 95 African-Americans whose ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

A fire that ravaged Nottoway Plantation, one of the Deep South's largest pre-Civil War mansions, sparked a wave of mixed reactions online, ranging from jubilation to dismay. The Louisiana landmark, ...

The programme was filmed at the historic house of Audley End in Suffolk. In a sequence dealing with sugar, produced in the Caribbean by slave labour, the presenter said “past owners of Audley End were ...

There are a dozen restored antebellum mansions and plantations along the west bank of the Mississippi River, on the River Road outside of New Orleans, and they are among the most popular tourist day ...

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 ...