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Video of the Nottoway Plantation fire sparks jubilation. It’s about anger and pain over slavery, too
A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War ...
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Watch: Nottoway Plantation fire unearths deep pain over enslavement of Africans
A fire destroyed Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, sparking mixed reactions. For many, especially Black Americans, the blaze ...
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5 things to know about Nottoway plantation
Nottoway Resort plantation home in Iberville Parish, formerly the largest remaining antebellum mansion in the U.S. South, ...
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The 10 Most Hilarious Black Memes From the Nottoway Plantation Fire
Although Nottoway was a sugar plantation built and operated by slaves in 1859, unless they are students of history, the ...
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A plantation home burned down. As a student of African American cooking, I feel a loss.
With its 200 windows and 165 doors fashioned by enslaved craftsmen and put in place with enslaved labor, Louisiana’s ...
What Caused the Nottoway Plantation Fire and Why is Annabelle The Doll Being Linked To It?
On an otherwise ordinary Thursday afternoon, one of Louisiana's most iconic mansions vanished into smoke. At around 2:00pm on ...
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A Pre-Juneteenth Barbecue: 5 Things You Should Know About the Now Torched Nottoway Plantation’s Horrid Legacy
The Louisiana mansion that once enslaved dozens of Black people is little more than embers now, but that doesn't mean we ...
The problem with using the word ‘plantation’ in the South today | Opinion
Columnist Issac J. Bailey writes about the complex legacy of Nottoway Plantation, the largest antebellum mansion in the South ...