and these plantations also serve as significant historical sites. Louisiana is perhaps the best state to visit when it comes to historic plantations, with numerous properties lining a stretch of ...

Consider the map on this page. You've seen it many times ... In 1763, French authorities expelled them from Louisiana and ...

Between 2018 and 2022, Ascension Parish served as a location for four films, including Academy Award Best Picture winner ...

This forced migration tore many black families apart, and ended their dreams of emancipation In the Cotton belt, most slaves lived on plantations ... Tennessee (1796); Louisiana (1812 ...

Activists are seeking to preserve what's left of Black history along the Mississippi River. Industry and its supporters say ...

This map highlights the location of the former Buena Vista plantation in St. James Parish ... $9 billion petrochemical ...

The effort is part of a long-running battle by local community groups, often descendants of enslaved people who worked plantations ... environmental organization Louisiana Bucket Brigades and ...

The messages urged recipients in multiple states to report to a plantation ... to hear a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number ...

The rural area -- speckled with homes, old plantations and large sugar cane ... the executive director of the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation, explained. "This is our last section ...

A genealogist spent years scouring historical records to trace the lives and establish the identities of enslaved people she ...

Lenora Gobert's research — published Monday by the environmental organization Louisiana Bucket Brigades ... Betsy and Rachel who had died at a former plantation now slated for a massive facility ...