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 ...

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 ...