Once the heart of a sprawling East Texas plantation run on enslaved labor, the Monte Verdi estate —complete with original ...

Kamala Harris, holding a pink balloon, poses with family in Jamaica. Family photo As a result, Vice President Harris, 59, is likely descended from both slaves and slave owners, according to Reuters.

Originally founded in 1752, the plantation went through several owners before being purchased in 1998 by John Cummings, a white former trial lawyer and civil rights activist from New Orleans.

Charles Gladstone, a descendant of former plantation owner John Gladstone, delivers an apology on behalf of the Gladstone family at Georgetown University in Georgetown, Guyana, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023.

“Any descendants of white plantation owners who have benefitted from the slave trade should be asked to pay reparations, including the Cumberbatch family,” general secretary of the Caribbean ...

In this letter from Henry A. Tayloe to "Dear Brother" [B.O. Tayloe], Henry tries to convince his brother to sell some of his slaves. Henry was a slave trader; his brother, a plantation owner ...

The new owner of Belmont Plantation, Brad Hauser, also apologized for the listing. "As the new, three-week owner of The Belmont in Greenville, Mississippi, I apologize for the decision to provide ...

Slave breeding farms or plantations aren’t taught in most schools in America for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, it doesn’t detract from being one of American history’s worst characteristics.

I'm not sure what to make of its being performed almost 30 years later in the kitchen of the Trulock plantation by Charles, a slave, except that culture is funny. Things get passed around.

The company said it is removing other listings that include former slave quarters in the U.S. and is developing new policies.The new owner of Belmont Plantation, Brad Hauser, also apologized for the ...