The other coercive system of labour in Egypt was state coercion which forced peasants to work through violence and intimidation. Dr Saleh has investigated the impact of Egypt’s cotton boom on these ...

Coley Bailey, a third-generation Mississippi grower, has hitched his 6,000-acre operation behind John Deere’s out-of-the-gate CP770 cotton picker—potentially the most proficient cotton ...

Crompton's grandfather had invented the spinning mule in 1779, a machine that kick-started the Lancashire cotton boom, enabling, for the first time, the mass production of high quality cotton yarn.

In the meantime, though, the cotton boom spurred slaves imported from Africa: 20,000 came to Georgia and South Carolina in 1803 alone. Finally, on January 1, 1808, Congress did officially ban the ...

It's land that to this day, despite urban sprawl, he still farms with relatives. Rayner witnessed the boom of cotton farming in Arizona at an early age. It was a time when 42% of the total cropland in ...