Friends visiting in Arkansas often ask where they can visit old Plantations. Plantations? They must think they are visiting Vicksburg, Miss. or one of the other locations where wealthy landowners ...

DARROW, La. — The grand old homes that sit along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — an area called Plantation Country — are filled with tales that stretch back hundreds of ...

NMAF copy 39088013968409 is a gift from Ms. Betty A. Brooks & Mrs. Barbara B. Jackson. "The plantation was a battlefield where slaves fought masters for physical and psychological survival. Although ...