Famous quadroon (1/4th black) = Mariah Carey. My great grandfather (pictured here, if I can get it uploaded) was an octoroon (1/8th black... the son of a slave master and a woman who's father was a slave master and whose mother was biracial). P...

Explore the haunted legends and stunning architecture of Myrtles Plantation, one of America’s most mysterious and historic homes in Louisiana.

slave cabins Catahoula Louisiana

Learn how to make Fish River Grill's delicious swamp soup with this recipe!

They were labelled as difficult and less valuable in the slave trade by slave traders as they strongly refused to be captured into enslavement. Being strong people who would never allow anyone to control them, the Kru, who are indigenous to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast would rather fight or take their...