White speculators moved in to take advantage of the newly available lands. This letter, from Frederick Norcom to James C. Johnston, describes the bounties of the new cotton lands. Norcom had ...

There are enough of negroes on our hands to keep in cultivation all the cotton lands which we control. Including both sexes, there are probably not less than six thousand black laborers within our ...

"This has been done, no doubt, in reference to obtaining a supply of labor for the cotton lands in Algeria. "The great immorality of the Chinese adults heretofore imported has caused the subject ...