Abundant with wildlife, waterfowl, marshes, tidal creeks, sea and sky, the undeveloped Waties Island and its surrounding area ...

A portrait of interracial life under slavery highlights the dangers faced by those who resisted the inhumanity of the ...

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, confronting American history requires remembering the enslaved Black Americans who physically and economically built this nation. While ...

Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ideas have gained currency in recent years, making it likely that the nation’s ...

JONES COUNTY, Ga. — Editor's note: This story is part of 13WMAZ's "Red, White and You" series, highlighting everyday Central Georgians making a difference ahead of the 250th birthday of the United ...

In a similar vein, Vice President Vance has claimed that Americans who can trace their ancestry to those who fought in the ...

A case for reimagining plantations—the engines of centuries of oppression—as laboratories for economic justice. Parlange, a plantation Louisiana that was sustained by the labor of enslaved people, ...

This Juneteenth I will stand at the Hermitage and help celebrate Black music. The Hermitage was Andrew Jackson’s plantation, outside Nashville. I want to be honest about how strange that is. I am ...

For the enslaved people on Louisiana plantations, resistance took many subtle and perilous forms. The new Whitney Plantation exhibit “Amongst Ourselves: Resisting Slavery at Whitney Plantation” ...

For years, a story that slaves' cornrows hid maps and messages to facilitate their escapes to freedom spread online as the stuff of internet legend. The idealistic story, indicative of the very real ...

Those who view racism as a historical phenomenon may be shocked to learn that the Black infant mortality rate in the modern era is 2.3 times higher than that of White infants, a racial disparity ...

Georgia’s past shows up in powerful ways, and its historic estates offer some of the most thought-provoking glimpses into that history. Scattered from the coastal lowlands near Savannah to the ...