This book has two goals. First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy ...

Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.

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Prince documented her life in her autobiography ... made up of formerly enslaved people who had escaped slavery and lived freely away from plantations, often in mountainous regions.

Cotton cultivation was pushing west, into the new southern territories, and plantation owners were desperate for slaves to work the crops. This selection is taken from a book entitled My Life in ...

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.

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 ...

While many historic sites have slavery exhibits, the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana makes slavery its central focus. Photo: Daymon Gardner for The Wall Street Journal ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became a popular refuge for slaves fleeing the horrors of plantation life in the American South. In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the ...

One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history is ... dual-purpose museum chronicling the 1811 uprising and Ory's life. The Banners said they would like the input of the local ...