We set out to metal detect around a Mississippi plantation house from the 1850s—but nothing could prepare us for what we found. From old silver coins and Civil War-era relics to unexplained events ...

We recently visited the remains of Edward McGehee’s once-grand home, Bowling Green Plantation, located in Woodville, Mississippi. While there, we documented a cemetery tour of the McGehee family ...

Like countless other residents of the deep American South, Jason MacDonald and Timothy Gipson, living in Brookhaven, ...

The Delta plantation system started in the 19th ... the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As European settlers began to explore the lower Mississippi Valley and displace ...

the kind fieldworkers wore on Mississippi plantations. Over his left shoulder, a panther looms menacingly into view: This was justice stalking America. The magazine, according to my review of its ...

and by the early 1900s he controlled plantations exceeding 20,000 acres. LeRoy Percy. Library of Congress. LeRoy Percy may have been born into Mississippi Delta aristocracy, but by the time he ...

WALLACE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring Afro-Creole culture along the Mississippi River had been eligible for receiving rare federal ...