The most popular ghost to haunt the Myrtles is Chloe. According to the legend, in the 1800s Judge Clark Woodruff, the plantation’s owner, had an affair with Chloe, the household servant.

In the 1800s, cotton became a popular crop on the plantations as well. These plantations became profitable for South Carolina; unfortunately, at the devastating expense of cheap labor by African ...

You own my sister, the woman writes to Elijah Fletcher, a slave holder at what was then the Sweetbrier plantation ... expect to start very soon too the south if you will not oblige me as ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Stagville Plantation in Durham was one of the largest slave plantations in the South. Nine hundred ... against their will back in the 1800s. "In many ways, I can touch ...

The historic Nottoway Plantation, located in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, and the largest surviving antebellum home in the South, was severely damaged by a fire that broke out Thursday afternoon.

The largest pre-Civil War mansion in all of the American South burned to the ground as ... Flames broke out at Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana, just after 2 p.m. Thursday, drawing ...

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - The privately owned historic plantations that dot South Carolina's low country don't switch hands often, but a tough economy and generational changes in ...

Gracie was known throughout Arkansas and the world in the late 1800s and early 1900s ... the mass exodus of Black slaves from plantations throughout the South after the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Hutto’s family lived on the plantation and even had a “house boy,” an unpaid convict who served them. At the time, most prisons in the South were plantations. In some states, certain inmates ...