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

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., ...

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

Her father was a descendant of Victor Haydel, an enslaved person on the Haydel (now Whitney) Plantation outside New Orleans. Her mother was a schoolteacher. Sybil attended parochial schools ...

This wouldn’t stop plantation owners from exploiting the ... which places white Americans above all others. Whitney Nell Stewart is author of This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern ...