Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South, banks in the North, shipping merchants, and the textile industry in Great Britain.

Kingsley Plantation tells one of Florida’s most distinctive slavery stories. In the early 1800s, Zephaniah Kingsley ran this ...

The content in the Rudin Slavery Collection (aka Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, #4681. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of its ...

Johnston, describes the bounties of the new cotton lands. Norcom had migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi. He writes to Johnston, a North Carolina plantation owner, telling him of the ...

Required: Materials that inform students about conditions in early textile mills (e.g., those in Lowell) and conditions on cotton-growing plantations prior to the Civil War. Also recommended are ...

This plantation was established in 1851, and by 1860, it was home to 74 enslaved people housed in 23 cabins. It operated mainly as a cotton plantation until the last crop was planted in 1922.