which easily separated cotton fiber from its seeds, was merely a motor for a global economic machine. Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation ...

A new, groundbreaking study reveals a story of fraud, slavery, taxes, government, conspiracy, debt blackmail, and rebellion.

A recent investigation reveals that child exploitation and forced labor are being used to pick cotton on dozens of farms in India. This investigation adds to those in countries such as China, which is ...

Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the southern economy and changing the dynamics of slavery. The first federal census of 1790 counted 697,897 slaves; by 1810, there were 1.2 ...

The history is complicated, but the overall principle is simple: Slavery helped the United States become a formidable economic power. It had the opposite effect on enslaved people ...

The traders in fact sold consignments of cotton goods, but until slavery was abolished in America in 1865 those goods were usually made with cotton picked by the hands of enslaved people in the ...

Lowell’s mills relied on the cheap cotton produced by enslaved African Americans forced ... or with the questions we’ve developed. In this lesson plan, "Slavery and the American South," students use ...

Rural slavery was rarer, with slaves constituting one per cent of the population in 1848. However, the cotton boom caused the number of slaves to surge, with the rural slave population tripling ...

Supporters of the New York Times’ 1619 Project are up in arms over remarks made by Tom Cotton in a recent interview, in which the Senator—somewhat clumsily—said that “[slavery] was the ...

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Census showing residents of Yonkers By Dennis Richmond Jr. A conversation about slavery is never easy. It is an open wound, a ...

Abolition did not, however, end Britain’s close association with slavery. Cotton produced by enslaved people in the American South provided Britain with crucial raw material during the industrial ...