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They say not all who die at Myrtles Plantation choose to leave. Located in St. Francisville, Louisiana, this 18th-century estate is shrouded in mystery,...
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They say not all who die at Myrtles Plantation choose to leave. Located in St. Francisville, Louisiana, this 18th-century estate is shrouded in mystery,...
Shutterstock The Kingsley Plantation Zephaniah Kingsley bought 13-year-old Anna Madgigine Jai at a slave auction in Havana, Cuba in 1806. Kingsley, 41, worked as...
Wikimedia Commons/Charles R. Parsons The Underground Railroad Route Through Niagara Falls Niagara Falls stood between slavery and freedom for thousands of African Americans from...
Shutterstock Historic Stagville Three generations of the Bennehan family turned a small tobacco farm into North Carolina’s largest plantation empire. By the 1860s, Stagville...
Wikimedia Commons/w_lemay Middleton Place In 1741, Henry Middleton set over 100 enslaved people to work digging butterfly lakes and building terraces for what would...
Shutterstock Drayton Hall, South Carolina Drayton Hall sits on the Ashley River like a ghost from 1738. This Georgian mansion survived the Civil War,...
Shutterstock Mount Vernon, Virginia George Washington could have lived anywhere after becoming president. He chose Mount Vernon, a Virginia farm he spent 45 years...
Flickr/Thank You (25 Millions ) views Destrehan Plantation, Louisiana Just 25 miles from New Orleans’ party scene, Destrehan Plantation tells a darker story. The...
Shutterstock Kingsley Plantation, Florida Kingsley Plantation tells one of Florida’s most distinctive slavery stories. In the early 1800s, Zephaniah Kingsley ran this sea island...
Shutterstock Houmas House Plantation There’s no sugar-coating this: Houmas House was once America’s biggest sugar plantation, powered by enslaved labor. Today it’s serving a...