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When Nottoway Plantation went up in flames last month, the destruction of a place rooted in the nation's history of ...
A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?
Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South, where scores of enslaved Africans labored.
Roughly an hour away, another plantation is working to honor the history of those once enslaved. When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15 ...
With its 200 windows and 165 doors fashioned by enslaved craftsmen and put in place with enslaved labor, Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was the South’s largest antebellum mansion, or “big ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
"Greenwood is one of the most beautiful spots in the country," the plantation's new partner said. "There are 200-year-old ...