If you love Southern plantations, put this one on your bucket list because Nottoway is the largest remaining antebellum mansion in the United States and is now a stunning Four-Diamond property.

Visitors can explore the period furnished rooms and learn about the plantation’s role in the history of South Carolina. What I Like: You can definitely spend a few hours at Middleton Place ...

But the masters and slaves never approached equality. The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of ...

Under the southern Slave Codes ... slaves formed strong communities within the plantation's boundaries. Isolated from the larger world, these communities of families supported each other ...

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