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The slave community plantation life in the antebellum South John W. Blassingame

NMAF copy 39088013968409 is a gift from Ms. Betty A. Brooks & Mrs. Barbara B. Jackson. "The plantation was a battlefield where slaves fought masters for physical and psychological survival. Although ...
Austin American-Statesman

Guides at Texas plantation committed to preserving truth of 'a very uncomfortable history'

WEST COLUMBIA — Back in February, during a break from a winter reading retreat at a beach on the Texas coast, I traveled inland to tour an old plantation. I knew that I would encounter uncomfortable ...
The Root

Plantation Tours: Don’t Expect to Hear How Horrible Slavery Really Was

I’m not sure how I picked up the hobby of touring plantations. I think it started with my interest in architecture—picked up from my husband, who works in real estate—and my best friend of 20-plus ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Go: Booker T. Washington National Monument is as much about Va. plantation life as man himself

Protected under the broad shoulders of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the unincorporated village of Hardy, Va., sits about 20 miles southeast of Roanoke. There stands a humble log cabin representing the ...