Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful ...

As Anthony Mackie reflected on his journey to becoming Captain America, some people questioned the details in his story. On ...

The contraband cotton slaves of South Carolina have, to some extent, been employed in the necessary work, and with good results. There are, according to the estimates made by one of our ...

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 ...

of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer as the source for this wrenching silent work. Through digital manipulation, Jacobs creates a haunting illusion of depth and ...

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

Slavery and cotton production became synonymous with the ... "We'd get $12 per bale and we had to pick hard in order to have money to buy food during that season," said Mississippi State Senator ...

S. geography and history from the earliest days of the American Industrial Revolution up to the Civil War, they relate convincingly and accurately what the journey from cotton plant to Northern ...

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 ...