ATF Team Joins Investigation Into Origin of Fire at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation

A Louisiana plantation-turned-resort burns, prompting a reckoning

A fire at the Nottoway Plantation has revived a conversation about how properties born from slavery should be viewed — and how they should function today.

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Since May 15, when the news broke of a fire which burned Nottoway Plantation, the largest antebellum plantation in the South, to the ground, Black folks have been sharing their excitement all across social media. For people whose ancestors endured slavery, it’s not hard to wonder why they would rejoice in the news of…Read more...

ATF team joins investigation into origin of fire at Louisiana's Nottoway plantation

Investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were recently deployed to help find the cause of a fire last week that destroyed much of the historic Nottoway mansion in Iberville Parish.