The Story of a Cotton Boll's Journey from Plantation to Factory to Slave Clothing Prior to the Civil War "Become" a boll of cotton growing on a Southern cotton plantation in 1845. You end up spun into ...

The demand for slaves to labor on southern cotton plantations made kidnapping of free persons a common practice.

On Nov. 6, 2024, several Black college students in the southern U.S. received unsettling texts informing them they had been "selected to pick cotton" on plantations. Here's what you need to know.

The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large ... In the lower South the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton plantations. Most of these plantations had fifty or fewer slaves ...

On November 6, several Black college students across the southern USA received random texts sharing how they had been “selected to pick cotton” from plantations. A few other messages even ...