The Coosaw Sea Island Cotton Heritage Preserve is one of the few sites in the region that contains visible markers of sea ...

These structures make up the remains of a sea island cotton field, worked and created by enslaved labor from the late 1700s until the Civil War. The 123-acre site is now permanently protected.

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In its musical moments, Ryan Coogler's vampire blockbuster makes a powerful statement about Black culture, ancestry, and art.

“Haint blue” paint is still visible on the three surviving slave cabins at Ossabaw, which stand in a tidy row beside what was once a field of Sea Island cotton. The cabins’ building material ...

From Birmingham to St. Louis, Black tailors have been keeping dandyism alive for decades. Ahead of The Metropolitan Museum of ...

But the blues is a gateway to transcendence as well as temptation, the soul-deep cry of a people in exile, capable of ...

He owned 700 to 800 slaves on several plantations, and he “put me to work at once in the cotton field,” she said. “I sowed the cotton, hoed the cotton, and picked the cotton. I worked under ...

S ome believe plantation weddings are relics of the past, yet they remain relatively common for white couples in the South.