One of my long-ago professors–not an economist, and not a political conservative– sometimes said that Adam Smith was just ...

Newton “Newt” Smith was born into slavery on the McCain plantation between Greenwood and Longwood, Louisiana in 1859. Four years later, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

We searched the slave registers available in both Jamaica and London and found Catherine Smith on a plantation owned by John Davy called Wear Pen in Manchester, Jamaica. The almanacs and parish ...

A group of students from Tulane University’s School of Medicine is gaining attention after they gathered together at a former slave plantation in Louisiana to pose for a photo they say ...

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 Southern whites did not even own slaves; of those who ...

The Neville House was built on slavery more than 200 ... this property does as well," said Susan Smith, the Woodville site director. With the Woodville plantation turning 250 years old, historians ...

We searched the slave registers available in both Jamaica and London and found Catherine Smith on a plantation owned by John Davy called Wear Pen in Manchester, Jamaica. The almanacs and parish ...