Stratford Hall, a historic house museum in Westmoreland County, Virginia, was the plantation house of four generations of the Lee family of Virginia. It was the boyhood home of two signers of the ...

The Potomac River was the lifeline of Stratford Hall, and the plantation’s economy was based on the labor of its slaves and indentured servants. In 1782, the Lees owned about 137 slaves, living in ...

These statues of enslaved young boys are part of a modern-day depiction of southern plantation life at the Whitney Museum in Louisiana. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert Located on nearly 2,000 acres along the ...

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. Located on nearly 2,000 acres along the banks of the Potomac River, Stratford ...

Stratford Hall in Westmoreland, Virginia, where enslaved cook and chocolatier Caesar lived and worked in the kitchen. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA The holidays are here, and among the many treats of the season ...

The holidays are approaching, and among the many treats of the season are chocolate and hot cocoa. While these traditions provide a hefty dose of sugar, there’s a bittersweet side to chocolate’s ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) These statues of enslaved young boys are part ...