Between the lines: The Banner sisters can trace their ancestors to people enslaved at Whitney Plantation, Laura Plantation ...

The United States was once home to more than 46,000 plantations. Today, many properties remain across the American South.

In the late 1700s, plantation owner Catharine Littlefield Greene introduced Whitney to a group of farmers were trying to decide if there was a way to make cotton a more profitable crop.

Author Clint Smith asked himself a terrible question while standing on the grounds of the Dachau concentration camp in ...

This grain elevator would take up hundreds of acres of the fields around you that once formed Whitney Plantation, potentially destroying unknown burial sites. It will contribute to the existing ...

Miles Gilbert looks at a sculpture of a slave child on the porch of the slave quarters at Whitney Plantation in Edgard, La., on July 25, 2016. His mother Colibri Jenkins, of Jackson, Miss., ...

Middle school students and their teachers visit the Whitney Plantation with Tactile Experiential ... [+] Education. My son’s San Francisco Bay Area middle school, East Bay School For Boys ...

Known for its Creole cuisine, Mardi Gras festivities and iconic architecture, New Orleans has something to offer every traveler, especially history buffs. The area's antebellum plantations offer a ...

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin ... Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South, banks in the North, shipping merchants, and the textile ...