The Story of a Cotton Boll's Journey from Plantation to Factory to Slave Clothing Prior to the Civil War "Become" a boll of cotton growing on a Southern cotton plantation in 1845. You end up spun into ...

The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large ... In the lower South the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton plantations. Most of these plantations had fifty or fewer slaves ...

With the gin (short for engine), raw cotton could be quickly cleaned; Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the southern economy ... This success of this plantation crop made ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.