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.

including cotton plantations, sustenance gardens, and pine forests. Other featured documents highlight the complicity between textile mill owners in Lowell and plantation owners in the south. You can ...

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 ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

Census showing residents of Yonkers By Dennis Richmond Jr. A conversation about slavery is never easy. It is an open wound, a ...

Also recommended are materials (maps, videos, etc.) that show the importance of geography and climate to the growing and transportation of cotton. Good primary sources include the writings of mill ...

Some 1.8 million slaves were forced to plant, grow and harvest the valuable crops. As well as tending the cotton plants, many of these people were sold, moved across state boundaries and put to work ...

The cotton used was mostly imported from slave plantations. Slavery provided the raw material for industrial change and growth. The growth of the Atlantic economy was an integral part of the ...

They then sailed to the Americas and sold the slaves to work on plantations that produced sugar, rum, tobacco and cotton. The goods from these plantations were then shipped back to Europe.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ 2012 wedding at Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens in South Carolina has come under renewed ...