Some plantation houses, like the Whitney plantation, offer a tour of the house that illuminates the history of slavery. This ...

It seemed like an appropriate time to visit Nottoway, which in many ways is emblematic of how some want to whitewash ...

As Black and Indigenous stories are being banned and censored, the burning of Nottoway exposes what America still protects, ...

Jo Banner, a co-founder of The Descendants Project, a nonprofit organization that focuses on eradicating the legacies of ...

Investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms are joining efforts to help find the cause of the fire that burned down the plantation.

Places like Nottoway paved the way for 21st-century developers who use “plantation” to name residential enclaves, first with alluring architecture that distracts from the blood of the enslaved in the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?

With its 200 windows and 165 doors fashioned by enslaved craftsmen and put in place with enslaved labor, Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was the South’s largest antebellum mansion, or “big ...

After the nation’s largest antebellum mansion, Nottoway Plantation, burned to the ground in an unexpected and devastating fire, the owners are sharing what’s next. Last week, just days after ...

There is no question, the enslaved workers at the Nottoway Plantation during the antebellum era were human chattel. They were unpaid and unable to leave. They had no property rights, no rights to ...