Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6 个月
Why Descendants Are Returning to the Plantations Where Their Ancestors Were Enslaved
The best work unfolding at such sites today is led by groups like the Montpelier Descendants Committee, which fought for ...
JSTOR Daily3 年
A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia
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 plantation in Tidewater ...
ABC News' Pierre Thomas visits plantation where his family was enslaved
It led ABC News Senior Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas to discover the West Virginia plantation where his ancestors were born into slavery. ABC News is the exclusive media partner of the ...