It's time to dive into the timeless and heated debate of whether Virginia is the South. Why it matters: The conversation taps into whether the South can evolve without losing its identity, how much ...

Although Jefferson's description of the slave trade was as much an indictment of the colonies as of Britain ... both northern and southern slaveholding delegates objected to its inclusion, and ...

It was among the scores of large and profitable slave labor camps -- privately owned and sanctioned by the government -- which had sprung into existance in the southern colonies during the ...