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 ...

Louisiana supports slave labor and slave wages. The question is whether our state Legislature and voters do, too. Imagine fighting for slavery these days. Imagine arguing that some people are inferior ...

A group of black medical students posed in front of the slave quarters on a Louisiana plantation for a powerful photo. Brian Washington Jr./Doyin Johnson WALLACE, Louisiana -- A group of black medical ...

WALLACE, La. (Reuters) - Life-size sculptures of slave children haunt the clapboard church on the grounds of the old sugar cane plantation, where ceramic heads of black men will soon sway on pikes in ...

DeGioia in July traveled to Louisiana to meet some of them. Many had no idea of the connection they had to Georgetown through their enslaved ancestors. As they researched their family trees after news ...

The Louisiana plantation home where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began has Black owners for the first time. They say the 1811... Louisiana plantation where historic slave revolt ...