Numerous photographs of a Virginia plantation (taken in 1960), an autobiographical account of life on a Mississippi plantation from the nineteenth century, and an interview with a former slave about a Louisiana plantation recorded in 1937.

This ebook version of Andrews Wilkinson's children's book entitled Plantation Stories Of Old Louisiana has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be...

Composed of 39 buildings, including a main house and slave quarters, Evergreen Plantation is an example of major plantations found in the Antebellum period of the United States.

An image of the Oakland Plantation.

Black businesswoman Marie Therese Coincoin created this plantation, includes perhaps the first black for black designed buildings in the United States.

An image of the San Francisco Plantation House.

An image of the Homeplace Plantation House.

An image of the Magnolia Plantation.

An image of the Parlange Plantation House.

An image of the Madewood Plantation House.

An image of the Oak Alley Plantation.

Read a summary of the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold to a plantation in Louisiana, where he worked as a slave for twelve years. Hyperlink to the text of Northup's book, Twelve Years a Slave.

Students will examine several documents related to the life of Solomon Northup, whose life story is told in his autobiography Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841...