This book has two goals. First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy ...

The patrols apprehended slaves outside of plantations, and they raided homes and any type of gathering, searching for anything that might lead to insurrection. During times of insurrection ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.

While many historic sites have slavery exhibits, the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana makes slavery its central focus. Photo: Daymon Gardner for The Wall Street Journal Home Browse Series Live Q&A ...

Brutal physical punishment, psychological abuse and endless hours of hard labor without compensation drove many slaves to risk their lives to escape plantation life. The death of a master usually ...

A sugar plantation on Antigua, 1823. The hard work of planting and harvesting sugar led to long hours for the enslaved African workforce. An engraving depicting enslaved Africans being auctioned ...

One of the largest slave ... Andry Plantation – the starting point of the 1811 revolt. "This is an extremely important historic site to this legacy of resistance," Joy Banner said during a ...

“I read one slave narrative of someone who was on that plantation which was horrific,” she previously explained during an episode ... could see the joy and the life that can come out of ...

The scores of texts told recipients that “executive slaves” would arrive in a “brown van” to transport them to plantations ...