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With federal funding slashed, libraries and museums across the country have been forced to find new ways to tell their ...
After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the ...
When Nottoway Plantation went up in flames last month, the destruction of a place rooted in the nation's history of ...
When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15, she felt a surge of energy in her body as she recognized why the name was so familiar.
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After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of ...
Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear what the loss of the Nottoway Plantation House means to descendants of people enslaved ...
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 ...