Cotton cultivation was pushing west ... Stroyer had been a slave on a large plantation in South Carolina until he was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1864. He then went on to become ...

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.

The history of Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, LA, is one with deep Southern roots. Considered an American heritage landmark, the stunning antebellum mansion sits ...

Students grow cotton from seed (optional); examine maps depicting transportation routes, major rivers, and ports; read primary and secondary source material on the American Industrial Revolution and ...

In an 1858 speech, he famously declared that “cotton is king” and ... of land on multiple contiguous plantations along the ...

Ten Black people – men, women, and one child – pick cotton in a waist-high field. The women wear gingham dresses and kerchiefs, the men wear white shirts and felt hats, and all are facing toward the ...

in the south. The Gullah Geechee are the descendants of Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo and Sea Island cotton plantations of the lower Atlantic coast. Along with their unique Creole ...

It operated mainly as a cotton plantation until the last crop was planted ... in conveying the true history of enslaved people in the South. Reviewers appreciated that the tour guides didn't ...