Slaves at Rosedown Plantation, the state’s most visited historical site, were “happy” and had “a natural musical instinct,” claimed the wording of an official exhibit sign at the state-owned and ...

An official sign declaring that slaves were “well taken-care of and happy” at Louisiana’s most-visited historical site has been removed. It’s unclear how long the sign was up at Rosedown Plantation, ...

The local descendants of slaves are applauding a nonbinding vote by Georgetown University undergraduates to provide restitution to the descendants of slaves sold to Louisiana plantations to pay off ...

Growing up in tiny Maringouin, Jessica Tilson often heard that everyone in town was somehow related. The 34-year-old Southern University student brushed off the statements as just a colloquial ...

NEW ORLEANS-The tale of Georgetown University's 1838 sale of 272 enslaved people to Louisiana plantations offers "a microcosm of the whole history of slavery" in America, the school's historian says.

Black Louisiana veterans from freed slaves who fought for the Union during the Civil War to modern heroes who served in the Iraq War will be honored with their first monument in Veterans Memorial Park ...

One of the outcomes of the Civil War was the emancipation of slaves, but former slaves, black freed men did not immediately enjoy full equality in southern Louisiana. On Nov. 17, 1865, before the ...

Recently, friends of the arts and I toured Houmas House and heard Jim Blanchard, well-known architectural artist, describe Louisiana’s antebellum homes. He reported that Houmas House is a contender to ...

An official sign declaring that slaves were "well taken-care of and happy" at Louisiana's most-visited historical site has been removed.State Parks official Brandon Burris tells The Advocate it's ...

An official sign declaring that slaves were "well taken-care of and happy" at Louisiana's most-visited historical site has been removed.State Parks official Brandon Burris told The Advocate it's ...