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 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 ...