Instead, in some rooms you’ll find the silhouette of real people who were enslaved on the grounds of Woodland, allowing their ...

This was the first time getting to take my family there. I think it did a great job of showing a different side of plantation life that isn’t normally depicted. What I love about the plantation ...

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 ...

Instead, he dispensed more than an hour of “Gone with the Wind”-style revisionist feel-good history about plantation life ...

But Dr Karl Watson, senior history lecturer at the University of the West Indies, gave me a more sobering view of plantation life. ‘The great houses are a relic of a time gone by that was bittersweet.

Despite enslavement and the extreme brutality of plantation life, people found ways to empower themselves. Through religion, language, culture, music and revolution, enslaved individuals and ...

These stories help to provide a more complete picture of plantation life and provide context for why plantation owners were able to afford the luxurious mansions preserved on the property.

For a group of friends or families, staying at the Pantiya Holiday Bungalow is a way to recapture the simple, relaxed plantation life of the past. Many of the guests (even tourists from overseas) have ...

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...