It was his weekends as a Civil War re-enactor that urged Joseph McGill to campaign for the conservation of slave cabins. Alan Hawes At a bygone plantation in coastal Georgia, Joseph McGill Jr ...

Residents of Sapelo Island, home to the last intact community of West African slave descendants, claim a special election ...

After the Civil War, the Butler Island Plantation would never again achieve ... Today, the island is the property of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Descendants of those who remained ...

General William Tecumseh Sherman launched a 285-mile campaign from Atlanta to Savannah that would become one of the most infamous operations in American military history. With 62,000 men, Sherman ...

Georgia's Supreme Court hears arguments on April 16 from Sapelo Island's Gullah Geechee residents who are trying to stop the construction of large homes. Here's what to know.

Georgia Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments Wednesday in an appeal of a lower court ruling that halted a referendum led by Sapelo Island residents.

Dana Nelson: Fan Butler describes the terrible conditions on her trip down [to her Georgia rice plantation ... 17th-century England in the English civil war, which are still all over the ...