They gained a sense of power simply by being white. In the lower South the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton plantations. Most of these plantations had fifty or fewer slaves ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...