The USA Deep South includes Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. These mostly rural states were dependent on slavery and plantations before the Civil War. Add the ...

Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South ... making fertile land in the Deep South, from Georgia to Texas, extraordinarily valuable.

To escape the deep South and make it North to New York ... slave catchers or civilian lynch mobs. Plantation owners whose slaves ran away frequently placed runway slave advertisements in local ...

The history of Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, LA, is one with deep Southern roots. Considered an American heritage landmark, the stunning antebellum mansion sits ...