The Coosaw Sea Island Cotton Heritage Preserve is one of the few sites in the region that contains visible markers of sea ...

Slavery spread from the seaboard to some of the new western territories and states as new cotton fields were planted, and by 1830 it thrived in more than half the continent. Within 10 years after ...

The harsh realities of plantation life are depicted, including the severe punishments and minimal provisions for field hands ... Keywords slavery, Mississippi, cotton gin, plantation life ...

Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” ...

Soon, cotton took over, and at the end of the 18th century ... The Park Service distinguishes between field slaves and house slaves, and notes differences in the ways the French and Spanish treated ...

Slavery and cotton production became synonymous ... Between 1910 and 1970, 6.5 million blacks went North,leaving the South, the cotton fields, and sharecropping behind. By the end of World War ...

to cooperate with Great Britain for the suppression of the Slave-trade. [Hear, hear.] In what particular way that may be done, it is not at present for me to say, but I am satisfied there is an ...

Sept. 3. -- The controversy over the question whether Cotton Mather of Boston entered into a plot to capture William Penn and the first colony of Quakers and sell them as slaves in the Barbados ...

These structures make up the remains of a sea island cotton field, worked and created by enslaved labor from the late 1700s until the Civil War. The 123-acre site is now permanently protected.