An image of Vacherie's Oak Alley Plantation used during "Wheel of Fortune's" Southern Charm Week created a stir recently when viewers complained it depicted slaves working outside the mansion.

Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie offers self-guided tours of slave cabins, and, ... history and the economics of slavery. “The owner didn’t buy a person,” Natel says.

A holiday tradition in Vacherie, La., is an elegant dinner on the lawn of Oak Alley Plantation, followed by a bonfire. (Oak Alley Plantation - Oak Alley Plantation) This Christmas season, America ...

During the Antebellum era, plantation weddings became symbols of wealth and social power. To understand this phenomenon, ...

The most photographed plantation in the South has been transformed into an archeological excavation site. A team of archeologists are digging at Oak Alley in Vacherie to unearth a part of the ...

Was every plantation selling “The slaves were so happy!” stories, ... which was now a museum dedicated to the history of slavery. ... I made my way to the Oak Alley Plantation.

If history -- antebellum history, specifically -- is the real religion of the South, then plantations are the region's churches. Plantation tour tells two sides of story: Travel Weekly Toggle ...